APB cooperates with Mallorca’s Food pantry
Palma de Mallorca
09/11/2015
Balearic Islands’ Port Authority (APB) has signed a collaboration agreement with Mallorca’s Food pantry today with the aim to help this entity to achieve its social goals. The agreement has been signed over a period of one year, renewable for successive annual periods if both parties agree. APB will collaborate with Mallorca’s Food pantry, training volunteers coming out among APB workers, to let them participate by helping this social entity to outreach their activities. APB will also create a partner network within the port community thus involving not only APB direct workers but also shipping lines, consignees and users in general. Agreement has been signed by APB President, Mr. Joan Gual de Torrella and Mr. José Falcó, president of Mallorca’s Food pantry Foundation. The role of food pantries is to reach with food to the most depressed levels of society. Message transmitted through Mallorca’s Food pantry is “WE NEED YOUR LEFTOVER FOOD”, because “there’s always a high demand in food, and infant food is urgently needed”, the company affirm. Volunteers are needed Mallorca’s Foos pantry has requested APB’s collaboration to appeal for volunteers to accomplish with the annual food collect to be held next November 27th and 28th. Those interested in collaborating may contact directly with Banco de Alimentos, to fix availability to participate in awareness and information campaign at Mallorca’s supermarkets, focused on their customers. APB will pass their workers the possibility to collaborate with this charitable campaign.
