Because our home region is more than just a place of work
October 10, 2023
100% responsibility is not limited to our work with customers. Our home region is also close to our hearts, which is why we have sponsored a number of charitable organizations over the years.
One of them is the Tafel Trier food bank, which we will support with an annual donation going forward. And on September 5, 2023, our staff spent a day working alongside the organization’s volunteers in Trier.
Ms. Bergmann, Director of the Catholic Women’s Welfare Service (SkF), which runs the Trier food bank, gave us some insights into her daily work:
In the morning, a team of volunteers collects food that is about to expire or couldn’t be sold from various stores, supermarkets and bakeries and cleans it. Following a brief check, visitors to the food bank receive an authorization card detailing the day and time of their visit and the number of people living in their household. This allows the volunteers to serve about 60-70 people a day without long waiting times. Visitors pay one euro per household and are given an amount of food that corresponds to the size of their family.
Rainer Bohlen, who manages the Kerschgens site in Bitburg, was in charge of handing out fruit. Manuel Krischel, his deputy, manned the bakery section and Anja Sachsen, Assistant to the Site Manager, helped the food bank’s volunteers as they welcomed and registered the visitors.
With its decision to support a local food bank, Kerschgens again honors its commitment to social and regional responsibility.
The food bank service is made possible by roughly 70 volunteers. Rather than simply handing out food, they are always ready to greet their visitors with a smile and a friendly ear for their concerns.
However, the number of people relying on the food bank grows every day while food donations are declining. The organization also suffers from a shortage of volunteers. If you are interested in supporting the Tafel food bank, you can write to the following address: ehrenamt@skf-trier.de
The Tafel Trier food bank is run by the Catholic Women’s Welfare Service, an organization that supports a number of charitable causes, among them child and youth services, and services for disabled persons, vulnerable women and families, sex workers, sufferers of mental illness and homeless women.
