ASSOCIATION FOR CLEAN ENVIRONMENT COME ON MACEDONIA SKOPJE

Total budget: MKD 1,748,480

Timeframe: 01.06.2019 – 30.11.2021

CONSTITUENTS

Target groups are the socially most vulnerable categories, homeless, elderly and feeble-bodies persons.

ON THE PROJECT SUPPORTED BY CIVICA MOBILITAS

Sustainable network for food saving

BACKGROUND

The consequences of the food shortage and the existence of insufficient nutrition are present with 21% of the population of North Macedonia, so more than 60,000 children and young people do not have all meals per day. This is considered a significant obstacle in their development, especially their integration in the educational process, because the insufficient nutrition decreases the capacities of the children and youth to successfully attend classes, influencing their concentration and cognitive process.

According to the data of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy at the territory of our country has 50 soup kitchens where there are more than 4,000 people. For this purpose, the Ministry allocates around 100 million denars from the budget of RM, but because of the limited resources, more than 90% of the people who need support, defined as vulnerable categories in the Law on Social Protection are not covered with this assistance.

The existence of soup kitchens and the implementation of other programmes, while increasing the social wellbeing, still do not efficiently use the means of the broader community. Apart from meeting this social need, one also looks into the management of the big waste of perfectly good food coming from food processing industries. At least 12,000 tons of surplus food is thrown out in North Macedonia every year, which is 30 million meals that could have fed tho9usands and thousands of hungry citizens in the country.

GOALS AND RESULTS

Goal – Decreasing the level of food waste in the Republic of North Macedonia

Objective – Establishing a national sustainable network of CSOs, private businesses and associations of managing surplus food waste

RESULTS

• Established sustainable networks to donate surpluses of food in Bitola, Veles, Kumanovo;
• Total quantity of saved food: 100,000 kilograms or 350,000 food portions;
• Number of socially endangered citizens who will be covered: 1,000;
• Value of saved surplus food: EUR 150,000.

ACTIVITIES

1. Identifying the local needs and capacities of the local CSOs in Bitola, Veles, Kumanovo and increasing the donations of surplus food to implement activities to donate food surpluses to CSOs and private businesses;
2. Daily distribution of food surpluses in Skopje;
3. Organizing an awareness raising campaign on the importance of the redistribution of food surplus in the municipalities of Bitola, Veles, Kumanovo;
4. Starting the process of distribution of surplus food to the socially endangered citizens in the municipalities of Bitola, Veles, Kumanovo;
5. Organizing an event “Feed 10,000” in Skopje, Polog and Northeast region;
6. Distributing monthly packages to 80 socially endangered families;
7. Making recommendations to sustainable local systems to donate food surpluses in Bitola, Veles, Kumanovo;
8. Closing conference on presenting the results of the distribution of surplus food of the donors.