Food to be distributed this year to people in need through an EU-financed scheme, includes jam, pasta, and biscuits.

Speaking during a visit to the Sliema Ursuline Creche on the occasion of World Food Day, Rural Affairs Minister George Pullicino said the scheme was now in its sixth year.

It was being undertaken through an investment of more than €500,000. In the past six years Malta received around €3.5 miljun worth of food products to be distributed among those in need.

The products were distributed in orphanages, homes, convents, homes for people with special needs and emergency shelters.

They were also distributed in residential homes and in 51 parishes and 20 organisations to pass on to people in need.

Around 10 per cent of the products were distributed in Gozo to around 2,000 beneficiaries. Currently, there are some 19,000 people being assisted through the scheme.

Mr Pullicino, who was accompanied by Parliamentary Assistant Philip Mifsud, also said that a petition entitled ”the 1billion hungry project” has been launched by the World Food Organisation within the United Nations on the occasion of World Food Day, this year being celebrated on the theme United Against Hunger.

The aim of the petition is to create a social conscience against poverty and hunger and overcome this challenge.

www.1billionhungry.com

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