Board (organization)

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Tafel is the name for non-profit aid organizations that distribute food that is no longer used in the economic cycle and would otherwise be destroyed to the needy or give it for a small fee. In Germany , one third of those in need are children and young people. The food banks have been active since 1993. In numerous other European countries there are comparable initiatives (“Food Banks”, French “banques alimentaires”).

Logo of the German umbrella organization “Tafel Deutschland e. V. "

In Germany, food banks are part of the Dachverband Tafel Deutschland e. V. is organized and mostly active at the municipal level . They are therefore called, for example, Berliner Tafel , Hamburger Tafel or Hannöversche Tafel or Tafel Flensburg, Tafel Bayreuth or Tafel Duisburg . The Tafel Deutschland logo is legally protected as a registered trademark (word / figurative mark).

History and development of the food banks in Germany

The im Tafel Deutschland e. V. organized panels are - measured against the established associations of free welfare such as workers' welfare and Caritas  - rather new actors in the field of social work. The first German board was founded in Berlin in 1993 by Sabine Werth and her initiative group Berliner Frauen e. V. founded and organized, based on whose model further boards were initially created in the major German cities. In the meantime there are 947 food banks in the Federal Republic of Germany (as of 2019) which, as a rule, with voluntary helpers, sometimes also permanent employees, collect usable food that the retailer or manufacturer sorted out as not for sale. These are products that, according to the company, are “just before the end of their best-before date ” ( best before date ). In practice, however, expired food is also given out, whereby the boards in this matter depend on the respective specifications of the local veterinary offices. The range of goods also includes foodstuffs that have been overproduced or whose packaging is damaged. The amount of goods delivered to the food banks (around 265,000 tons per year) makes up a relatively small proportion of the total of 18 million tons of food disposed of in the garbage according to the WWF study.

These goods - to a lesser extent also non-food items for everyday use - reach the needy via more than 2000 distribution points in social institutions or food shops. Anyone who is actually needy, i.e. who has little money available, has the right to use the blackboard. These include pensioners , the unemployed , large families and asylum seekers . A need is checked and the income is determined. Many boards also set an income limit. Anyone who falls below this will receive an authorization card, which can also be limited, for example for one year. Anyone who receives state benefits such as basic security , social assistance , unemployment benefit or benefits under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act usually receives the ID and provides the Hartz IV standard rate (see unemployment benefit II and standard requirement ) and the basic security the calculation basis. The need must be proven, for example with a benefit notification , social pass (see for example social ticket and Berlin pass ) or another certificate. For pensioners, bank statements and rental agreements can be used to calculate the income. Temporary documents must be proven again after they become invalid, as must an identity card (see identity card (Germany) and identity card ). A small, symbolic personal contribution for the food may be raised, whereby this should be as low as possible. The reason is that the food banks incur costs for collecting the groceries from the companies, as well as for vehicles and fuel. In addition, there is the effort to distribute the goods on site, as well as the operation of the shops and table mobiles.

The Tafel work is financed exclusively through members, sponsors and donors . As privately organized initiatives, the food banks do not receive any funding from the federal or state governments for collecting and distributing the food, but sometimes from local authorities . Some of the umbrella organization's projects are supported by the federal government, for example the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture is funding the digitization project “Tafel Makes Future - Together Digital” and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research supports the project “Tafel macht Kultur”. The food banks also benefit indirectly from payments made by the European Union to food banks (see below).

The idea of ​​the food banks comes from America : In 1963, John van Hengel founded the first food bank in Phoenix (Arizona) - a large warehouse primarily for long-term storable food donations. In 1983 the City Harvest organization started its work in New York .

Old logo of the German Federal Association

The majority of German food banks merged in 1995 through the agency of Stiftunglife in the Federal Association of German Food Banks. Accordance with the principles of the umbrella organization are board facilities interdenominational , are no party close, do not interact with each other (competing territorial protection ) and help as many people. The administrative seat of the umbrella organization is Berlin-Tempelhof (Germaniastraße 18).

Up until 2015, the federal board meeting took place once a year , since then it has taken place every two years. It is held in a different German city as a general meeting of all regional food associations. In addition, experiences can be exchanged here, questions of principle can be discussed and contacts with sponsors and service providers can be established.

Volunteer organization

A pickup truck from the Dortmunder Tafel in Dortmund

The food banks supply around 1.65 million people across Germany with an average of 3.4 kilograms of food once a week. The delivery takes place exclusively to the needy, which their need z. B. can provide evidence of a Hartz IV notification. The food banks cannot and do not want to offer full supplies - only donated goods are distributed, many of which are only available sporadically. No groceries are bought. With over 60,000 volunteers, the food banks in Germany are considered to be one of the largest social movements of today.

Examples are the Zwickauer Tafel (in 2005 a total of 39 volunteers with two vehicles from 74 companies collected around 30 tons of food per month, which are portioned and distributed) and the Berliner Tafel (in 2009, the donations collected were used to raise 300 social Facilities as well as 45 church dispensaries). This enabled an average of 125,000 people to be cared for each month.

In addition to distributing food for self-sufficiency at home, 17 percent of the tables maintain soup kitchens . In individual cases, further aids are offered such as the handover of used clothing, used toys, and school bags. Cooking courses are also offered. 30 percent of those in need who come to the food banks are children and young people. Many food banks are now organizing special children's and youth projects for children in need, such as free school meals, children's cafés, help with homework, financial support for school trips and Christmas parties.

A relatively new trend is that more and more students in university towns are making use of the information on the tables there. The reason for this is that many students are already considered to be needy due to their low income.

The number of food banks in Germany has grown significantly in recent years:

Action loaf and soul as part of the Berliner Tafel, here in the Berlin-Fennpfuhl district
year Number of panels year Number of panels year Number of panels year Number of panels
1993 1 1994 7th 1995 35 1996 70
1997 90 1998 155 1999 220 2000 260
2001 290 2002 310 2003 330 2004 430
2005 480 2006 657 2007 753 2008 790
2009 861 2010 877 2011 891 2012 906
2013 916 2014 919 2015 920 2016 917
2017 934 2018 941 2019 947

In 2006, a large number of the supermarkets, wholesale markets, bakeries and butchers' shops that were ready for sale were recorded, so that new food banks can hardly be set up in rural areas where there are only a few retail businesses.

The management consultancy McKinsey provided support in setting up the logistical structure for the collection and distribution of food as part of a pro bono project .

Further development as food banks?

In order to develop further food donations in the future, the umbrella association of the food banks is considering participating in a larger system for the discharge of unneeded surpluses and for feeding in EU stocks, which bears the working title of Food Bank (' food bank '). These food surpluses are largely bypassed the food banks and other aid organizations today. In the Aachen area , the AixEuregio Aachen food bank was founded in 2005 as the first German food bank, independent of the food bank movement, which sells surplus food across Germany. The food banks may want to participate in this and a future network of three to four food banks. But you don't want to set up your own food bank yourself.

In other European countries there are already food banks that perform tasks similar to those of the food banks in Germany, i.e. they collect food and give it to social institutions. Since 1980 the European Commission has been buying up surpluses from agricultural production (meat, milk, butter, etc.) and making them available to the food banks in the various member states.

Similar projects

There are other aid projects that also have the word board in their name, but do not deal with providing people with food, for example animal boards.

Animal board Germany

The Tiertafel Germany e. V. is a registered association founded by Claudia Hollm in 2006 , which organizes free feed and material donations as well as advice for pets of needy people (usually benefit recipients according to SGB II or SGB XII). So far, there have been animal food dispensaries in the German states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia. More are being planned.

The Tiertafel Germany stands with the in Tafel Deutschland e. V. organized boards in no connection, but expressly distances itself from the business conduct of the boards. "To ask for more money from those who have nothing anyway is pretty unabashed," said a board member of Tiertafel Deutschland e. V.

There are other feed distribution projects throughout Germany , some of which also have the term “Tafel” as part of their name, but with the activities under the umbrella organization Tiertafel Deutschland e. V. standing so-called issuing offices are not connected (for example: Osterholzer Tiertafel, Frankfurter TierTafel, etc.).

Medication table Germany

The ARD broadcast Monitor in February 2010 reported on a newly founded aid initiative, the drug table . This offers the possibility of prescription-free medicines such as painkillers, ointments and the like. which the poorest strata of the population cannot afford to purchase for a small amount. The undamaged, originally packaged medicines come from private donations.

In Solingen there has also been a medicine board since 2010. This is where Tafel Solingen e. V. cooperates with the solimed network of doctors in the Medical Aid Solingen project . Many patients receive the medication they need free of charge in the pharmacy.

Supporters and sponsors in Germany

The most prominent supporters in Germany include a. the former soccer player Paul Breitner , who helps with the Münchner Tafeln every Monday. The other sponsors of the Münchner Tafel, which is not a member of the umbrella organization, include the Life Foundation , the Clarissa and Michael Käfer Foundation of the restaurateur Michael Käfer , almost all of the major retail chains, the ADAC , Henkel and the Lions Club . The Federal Minister for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth , currently Franziska Giffey , is the patron of the food banks in Germany  . Jörg Pilawa has been a Tafel ambassador since 2019 .

Board-like institutions in other countries

France

The organization Les Restos du Cœur (colloquially for 'restaurants of the heart') has existed in France since 1985 . In the winter of 2012/13 the organization helped 960,000 people and served 130 million meals; in the winter of 2013/14 she expects over 1 million people. 57 percent of those seeking help are (as of 2013) unemployed. 30% of the funds spent by RdC come from public coffers (including the EU) and around 70% from private donors. In France, unemployment has been higher for years than in Germany (see also Euro crisis # France ).

Iceland

In 2007/2008 Iceland was hit hard by a crisis in its (then large) banking sector; the effects of this crisis almost resulted in national bankruptcy . The subsequent economic crisis in 2009/10 led, among other things, to a decline in tourism . The Christian association Missionaries of Charity (Sisters of the Mother Teresa Order) opened the first poor kitchen in the capital Reykjavík in 2007 , in which a small snack is served free of charge twice a week. The kitchen is based on donations and is aimed at people who can no longer get regular meals.

Austria

Wiener Tafel logo

In Austria there has been the Wiener Tafel since 1999 , an independent charity with tasks like the German food banks. However, it does not operate any feeding points itself, but rather distributes the food it collects to people affected by poverty via recognized social institutions that offer professional advice and support. Reports such as “Redistribution for the benefit of all” or “Supply instead of disposal” can be found on the Internet. Later came the Salzburg and meanwhile also the Pannonian table in Burgenland . In 2016, Wiener Tafel saved and distributed 500,000 kg of food and, in June 2017, used donations to build a 200 m 2 warehouse and distribution house on Großgrünmarkt in Inzersdorf , the so-called Tafelhaus.

In recent years, social markets and the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Sozialbetreuung (ARGE Sozial) have emerged, in which minimum pension recipients or people with low incomes can buy food cheaply or receive it free of charge. As with the German food bank, the food comes from donations from supermarkets or sponsors. Recipients are people who have less than 700 to 800 euros a month; proof of income is required for the first visit. The ARGE, subsidized by the municipalities, maintains day-care centers for serving and providing hot meals for 2 euros per portion. Some of these projects have existed since the 1990s.

The Caritas of the Archdiocese of Vienna performs under the name Le + O action food distribution and consulting through. Here, according to the household net income (for example an adult less than 912 euros) or, in the case of special emergencies, personal authorization cards with a validity for one year are issued. A food donation for one symbolic euro can be obtained once a week at the distribution points.

The Vorarlberg region (as of 2009) is organizing the Tischlein deck dich campaign in the cities of Bludenz , Feldkirch , Götzis , Dornbirn and Bregenz . As with the other food banks, needy people who are in possession of an official authorization card are provided with food from overproduction or donations by volunteers. The issuing points are called 'bus stations' because an omnibus course is used for distribution in the towns.

The Statistics Austria are (as of 2009) for Austria a number from 1 million in need of, so people who live on the poverty line. About 25 percent of them are children.

In 2010 the Organization Team Austria expanded its activities to include the Aktion Team Österreich Tafel .

Since 2016/2017, donated food left over from daily restaurants has been picked up in Graz and offered alternately at communal meals in one of two neighborhood centers and a club bar. What is left here can be taken in cans or ends up in self-drawing boxes called “distributors”, which are accessible to everyone from the sidewalk. The number of these distributors is 5 to 10, the locations change depending on the individual situation. The group of people who negotiate, assemble, load and use these boxes - sometimes supplemented by a refrigerator - and use them as consumers is inhomogeneous and includes people who want to save food and avoid unnecessary waste.

Spain

Volunteers from the Banco de Alimentos de Madrid picking up food donations, here in the fish hall of the Mercamadrid wholesale market in Madrid

In Spain there is the Fundació Banc dels Aliments (German food bank ), which, like other European food banks, works as a non-profit organization with voluntary helpers and supplies the needy with food free of charge. The food, which is temporarily stored in a large hall on the port area of Barcelona , sometimes comes directly from manufacturers, often also from donation campaigns by companies and supermarkets. Those in need are also supported with EU funds. An example: the peaches that grow in abundance in the country are brought by the EU to cider plants, which use them to fill juice into bottles specially made for the food bank. However, sales are not permitted. There are distribution stations ( soup kitchens ) throughout Spain ; in Barcelona alone, 300 such facilities were known in 2009, which in the same year distributed 7500 tons of food to 85,000 people in need.

Switzerland

In Switzerland , the Salvation Army has been providing food aid for the needy for years . The charity organization Tischlein deck dich , which is financed by donations, has existed since 1999 , which distributes food and daily necessities from around 1000 donors to people in need via around 130 distribution points. The employees (20 full-time positions) are supported by around 3000 volunteers (as of 2020). The Swiss food bank of the “Stiftung Schweizer Tafel” in Kerzers was founded in 2001 on the model of the American “City Harvest” and the “Berliner Tafel” and delivers around 16 tons of food to social institutions in twelve regions of Switzerland every day.

Other European countries

The Metro Group has been increasingly involved in the area of ​​food donations internationally since the mid-2000s. At key locations of the food and goods group such as Ukraine , Hungary , Poland , Portugal , Spain , the Czech Republic and Turkey , campaigns such as Metro Cash & Carry (“Care & Share”) and the Food Convoi are supported with the aim of providing food. There are also cooperation agreements with local aid organizations such as the non-profit Helpica Foundation and the Hungarian food bank organization for individual or regular aid and donation campaigns.

Food donations outside of Europe

In the USA , too, there are similar institutions for the care of the needy in larger cities, but these are supported by church institutions. But here too, groceries are donated by supermarkets.

Criticism on the blackboard

In the course of the increasing distribution of panels, criticism of the concept was and is being expressed. The majority of the critics do not criticize the fact that boards are a way of helping those in need, but that the boards as emergency aid reduce the pressure to fight the causes of poverty. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the food banks in 2013, the social scientist Stefan Selke, together with people affected by poverty, association representatives and academia, including Peter Grottian, founded the critical action alliance 20 years food banks, which advocates a poverty-free, needs-based and subsistence-covering minimum income, the food banks and other charitable offers could make it redundant in the future.

Relief instead of fighting poverty

The distribution of food can alleviate poverty, but it does not eliminate poverty and its causes. Horst Krank, chairman of the LudwigsTafel, therefore points out the responsibility of politicians to fight poverty independently of the food banks, and sees the food banks as a “warning”. There are already reasons for critical assessments by scientists and other welfare organizations of the external impact of the German food banks that their use appears in the public perception as a far-reaching compensation for poverty, but that their actual fight takes a back seat.

The key issues paper of the German Caritas Association contains critical questions about boards, along with a positioning of the association . The work of the food banks is praised as necessary and good acute help, but it is emphasized that it cannot be a permanent solution. The distribution of food and goods alone is not yet suitable for combating the individual or structural causes of poverty. Rather, conditions should be created that focus on the “concept of empowerment” and thus enable “self-determined participation”. The paper warns:

"It would be fatal if the politically welcome Tafel movement contributed to the state gradually withdrawing from the general interest of its citizens with reference to civil society."

- German Caritas Association

, Is the basis for the concern that the state could cut back in response to the assistance of a third means he would have to apply as part of its duty of care for the needy § 9 SGB I . There it says: “Anyone who is unable to earn a living on their own or to help themselves in special situations, and who also does not receive sufficient help from other sources [sic!], Has a right to personal and economic help that meets their special needs, enables them to help themselves, enables them to participate in life in the community and ensures that they can lead a decent life. Those entitled to benefits must do their utmost to help. "

From the perspective of social work, other authors see the panels as a sign of an extensive process of change in the welfare state's fight against poverty and as an expression of a new social division. As a safeguard, they hold on to the development process:

“The establishment of welfare state security systems and the establishment of professional, professionally qualified social work represented the aversion of benevolent, chance-based gifts and the associated dependencies for needy people and opposed them with individual rights aimed at enabling members of society to participate to back up."

- Fabian Kessl and Holger Schoneville

The boards, on the other hand, would only be able to provide emergency aid. Their use is not based on the rights of individuals secured by the state, but on the charity of third parties. Professional social work has to ask itself why it is possible

"Not only to provide survival aid, i.e. emergency care, but also to contribute to the empowerment of their users, and to what extent [...] they [are] able to open up previously unavailable perspectives for action beyond the relief of acute emergencies."

- as before

The sociologist and book author Stefan Selke also critically analyzes the indirect effects of the Tafel movement in his contributions. A central thesis in his book Almost at the bottom is:

"Instead of participating in the abolition of poverty, the food banks participate - certainly unintentionally - in a segmentation of society into 'above' and 'below'."

- Stefan Selke

He regards the resulting dependency of poor people on the food banks as unfavorable and also the increasing proximity of the food bank leadership to politicians (for advertising purposes; symbolized by patronage and underlined by corresponding media contributions). He fears the paradox that especially with good work of the boards

"Then the impetus for sustainable and structural poverty reduction (in the long run) wears off."

- as before

The boards are increasingly being questioned by self-organizations such as unemployment initiatives. In Austria, the active unemployed criticize a “blending of society”.

"Learned helplessness" and "identity-creating helpfulness"

A fundamental problem is that many customers of a blackboard have become victims of a learned helplessness and only think that they cannot help themselves. With the right forms of help that would encourage able-bodied people to free themselves from their need, the victim status of these customers could be ended. Instead, the supply of food banks alleviates their suffering. Wolfgang Hinte's realization that those who work in the field of “ social work ” often have a tendency to make helpfulness part of their identity can be transferred to voluntary workers in boards. As occasional similarities with that of the behavior of helpers in sheets Co-addicts would use, which do more harm to addicts, to which they were in a personal relationship, as well.

Hinte warns: “Anyone who [...], fixated on a thoroughly accurate analysis of social problems and the resulting socio-political demands for better conditions for the satisfaction of needs, naively derives a mandate for the care and satisfaction of wishes from it, becomes all too easily a victim of one quite clever clientele who know how to use this willingness to help in a smart way. "

Structural deficiencies in the welfare state

From Article 1, Paragraph 1 of the Basic Law ("Human dignity is inviolable. It is the duty of all state authority to respect and protect it."), The right of every needy person to support from the state in the amount of the subsistence level can be derived. When people lack of money are reliant on accept offers a panel to complete, there is only the reason that they do not live on the amount may defined as subsistence or that they could , but do not engage in enough that this also succeeds. The first explanation leads to the criticism that the standard rates for social assistance , especially for " Hartz IV " benefits, are too low. In May 2011, lawyers in need filed an urgent action against the new Hartz IV regulation in response to a ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court in 2010. The basis of the norm control procedure were suspension and reference decisions of the Hessian State Social Court and the Federal Social Court . When calculating the shopping cart that must be granted to those in need, z. B. in the course of the Hartz IV reform, cigarettes and alcohol were no longer taken into account. The lawyers argued that beer consumption and smoking were also part of the cultural subsistence level of an adult living in Germany.

According to the second variant, food banks would ease the compulsion to include sufficient funds for food in the planning of the use of state transfer payments. According to this, the needy would have to manage to live from what the state allows them. Walter Wüllenweber notes that there is hardly any household receiving social assistance that lacks sophisticated entertainment electronics. In any case, an actual need could hardly be assumed.

Business and economic consequences

In the public perception, companies that give food free of charge to the blackboard often appear to be “altruistic donors”. In fact, food producers and, above all, food retailers have great advantages when food banks collect food from them that, due to legal regulations, can no longer be sold, although their consumption is no more harmful to health than that of the sellable goods: The donors save the costs of transporting Organic waste in disposal facilities and the fees incurred there. If companies advertise that they have saved unspoiled food from destruction, this also improves the image of the “benefactors”, which in turn can have a positive effect on the company's market share . However, none of this changes the fact that the depletion of material or financial resources is always an economic problem and there are therefore incentives to counter it through avoidance strategies. Companies that try to keep less potential “slow-moving goods” (i.e. here: food that cannot be sold on time) and consistently apply the “ FIFO principle ” (“first in, first out”) of warehouse management have a competitive advantage over this Companies that hand in paid goods free of charge or even have to dispose of them for a fee. In the long term, there is likely to be a tendency for less food to be left over at the tables.

Campaigns to explain the difference between the best before date and the use by date of food could also lead to a decrease in the amount of surplus food . So far, many customers are still reluctant to buy food that is about to expire because they are worried about their health. If they understand that these concerns are unfounded or largely unfounded, they could resort to special offers from retailers, thereby reducing the range of food that can be made to food. The tendency to reduce the number of bars on offer is also strengthened by the fact that biogas plants are increasingly being filled with substances that are suitable for human consumption in a fresh state, but which may no longer be sold after a specified period. Such a sales ban is subject to spoiled food as well as food that is still delivered to food banks today. The remuneration paid by the operators of biogas plants for this asset is an incentive for food retailers not to sell their goods free of charge (to food banks, zoos, etc.). As a result, food banks will certainly increasingly have to rely on genuinely unselfish deliveries or, with the help of monetary donations, will have to buy groceries under regular conditions, which they then pass on for free or at a very reduced price.

Allegedly lack of transparency

The handling of the donations and the recipients' own contributions has in the past also led to allegations of embezzlement : at the end of 2009, twenty active members of the Leipziger Tafel wrote a fire letter to the management of the umbrella organization of the food banks and reported alleged abuses in collecting money and accounting Checked cash register reports from 2008 or earlier periods are missing. The Leipziger Tafel denied embezzlement. At the beginning of 2010, independent auditors and tax consultants certified that Leipziger Tafel had complete and correct bookkeeping for the years 2006 to 2008, a preliminary investigation by the public prosecutor's office was discontinued for lack of initial suspicion and the non-profit status of Leipziger Tafel e. V. extended by the Leipzig tax office in 2010 for five years. Tafel Deutschland eV described the allegations against the Leipziger Tafel as unfounded.

The panel Germany eV has signed the Civil Society Initiative Transparent .

Sales tax treatment

For reasons of equity, the tax administration will not object to the waiver of sales taxation in the case of the free sale of food shortly before the expiry date or when it is ready to be sold as fresh goods . A prerequisite for this is that a donation receipt for donation purposes is not issued. The tax exemption is regulated in Section 4 No. 18 of the Sales Tax Act: Of the sales falling under Section 1 (1) No. 1, the following are tax-exempt: Benefits closely related to social welfare and social security, if these benefits are provided by public law institutions or other institutions that do not strive for systematic profit. Any profits that arise anyway may not be distributed, but must be used to maintain or improve the services provided by the institution.

Problem exacerbated due to the COVID-19 pandemic

According to a report by Tafel Deutschland dated June 17, 2020, according to a current survey, there is a new and increased need for help due to the corona pandemic . The food banks currently no longer reach everyone who otherwise regularly looks for support. The food banks quickly adjusted to the changed conditions and reopened the distribution points. However, the organization is expecting increasing customer numbers in the coming weeks. The 830 boards that are currently open would be confronted with two problem areas: On the one hand, more and more people are coming to the boards for the first time from week to week. These are self-employed, people on short-time work or those affected who have completely lost their jobs or part-time jobs due to the corona pandemic. On the other hand, many, especially older people, who had already used the food on the food banks before the crisis, stayed away for fear of infection. Jochen Brühl, Chairman of Tafel Deutschland eV: “In the last few weeks we have seen a new form of need at the Tafel. There are more and more younger people who, until recently, did not have to rely on the blackboard at all and are now crying with relief because they can get something to eat and refill their fridge. Even if the federal government has already initiated quick and unbureaucratic help, some people are in dire straits ”. At the moment it is not possible to reach all the people who depend on the food banks, although the poorest are particularly hard hit by the crisis. Families have increased spending on food because they have to take care of their children completely at home. Elderly people not only lack food, but also social contacts. Brühl appeals to politicians not to forget people affected by poverty in the crisis. Currently, 120 of 949 food banks are still closed nationwide. The main reasons are limited space and a lack of volunteer workers . Most of the volunteers belong to a risk group anyway, due to their age or previous illnesses. Some boards could at least have set up delivery services for special risk groups, but encounters and discussions in the boards have now been completely eliminated.

At the end of March 2020, Tafel Deutschland had already sent an open letter to Federal Social Minister Hubertus Heil , demanding more help for people affected by poverty. Together with other associations and organizations, the food banks spoke out in favor of a temporary increase in basic security benefits by 100 euros per month. The reasons for this are as follows: “The federal government's billion-dollar stimulus package also takes poor people into account through the one-time child bonus and a drop in VAT . But the help is not enough and it comes too late. Families affected by poverty absolutely need the child bonus to live. This money is not enough to buy tablets or laptops for home schooling . Older people with very low pensions or basic security in old age do not benefit at all ”. The federal government must improve this.

See also

literature

  • Fabian Kessl, Holger Schoneville: Social work and tables - from the transformation of welfare state poverty reduction. In: Stephan Lorenz (Hrsg.): Tafelgesellschaft: for the new way of dealing with excess and exclusion . transcript, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-8376-1504-3 , pp. 35-48.
  • Fabian Kessl, Thomas Wagner: What falls from the table of the rich ... On the new political economy of compassion. In: Manfred Kappeler (Red.): Stand behind! for the regulation of poverty in the activated civil society. (= Contradictions . Issue 119/120). Westfälisches Dampfboot Verlag, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-89691-980-9 , pp. 55-78.
  • Stephan Lorenz (Ed.): TafelGesellschaft. On the new way of dealing with excess and exclusion. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-8376-1504-3 .
  • Stephan Lorenz: tables in flexible abundance. Ambivalences of social and ecological engagement. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-2031-3 .
  • Stefan Selke : Almost at the bottom - How to get full in Germany with the help of food bars. Westfälisches Dampfboot Verlag, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-89691-754-6 .
  • Stefan Selke (Ed.): Tafeln in Deutschland - Aspects of a social movement between food redistribution and poverty intervention. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-16139-6 .

Web links

Commons : Blackboard (organization)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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