Ramadan Food bank 2021

Food is the most basic need in life and securing it for the poor in Ramadan month basis can help with their health, social and financial statuses.
The economic status has affected the underprivileged families negatively, hence; it affected their productivity. Therefore, Palestinian Food Bank designed the Ramadan month feeding program in 2019 to support the poor & most needy families.
The program relies on sending in Ramadan month feeding boxes to the beneficiaries’ basis.

- RFB covers 200 families in Ramadan .

- All families that receive RFB’s feeding box, were previously studied and registered in RFB’s database.

- The average number of members per family is between 6to 8 members .

In order to have an organized process, the research department studies all suggested cases and evaluate them from the most to the least in need. The criteria that gets registered in our database are:

-Elderly and Single mothers.

-The unable to work (Elderly, Sick (chronic disease), Orphans and People with Special Needs).

Box components :The components may change based on need and availability, but the following list is available in the box every year .

- 1.8 Kg Rice

- 1.8 kg Pasta

- 1 kg Sugar

- 2 kg Lentil 2 types

- 800 ml Oil

- 0.4 gm Salsa paste

- 250 gm cheese

- 1.2 gm canned beef

- 100 gm tea
- 0.4 gm salt

- Biscuit

- 3 liter juices

-  5 caaned beans 

Ramadan month feeding goals:
-Offering some sort of stability to the families in need.

-Offering continuous support to the families by providing the Ramadan feeding box on long term basis or short term basis .

-Spreading societal awareness about Ramadan and the importance of
giving food as a basic need.

-Changing the perspective of people towards the hungry, a hungry person looks like everyone; he can be obese, however, he shouldn’t look sick. He is just a broken person who doesn’t feel safe.