Egyptian Food Bank

Food is the most basic need in life and securing it for the poor on monthly 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, Egyptian Food Bank designed the monthly feeding program in 2006 to support the poor & most needy families. The program relies on sending monthly feeding boxes to the beneficiaries’ on monthly basis. - EFB covers 250,000 families per month. - All families that receive EFB’s monthly feeding box, were previously studied and registered in EFB’s database. . The boxes are delivered to them on monthly basis. 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.

Today ,Egyptian food bank(EFB) is not keen to provide access to sufficient food to its beneficaries but also keen to provide nutritious, diverse diets and preferred food items . As such , EFB consulted with the Egyptian National Nutrition institute to redesign its monthly food packages to include nutritious and diversified food items . The newly designed food packages aim at meeting the individula micro and macro nutritional needs including carbohydrates , fats ,protiens ,vitamins and minerals ,etc. Consequently , EFB designed two distincit food packages , one that meets the dietary needs of a female -headed household composed of a mother and her three children and the other is tailored to a two person house hold whose provider is disabled or elderly . 

The newly chosen food items were selected based on logistical and operational considerations including enduring adversewheather conditions and transportation to far distances . 

 

Ingredients of the box for the elderly:Ingredients of the box for the elderly:4 boxes of cheese (250 g per box) - 2 bags of powdered milk (100 g per bag) - 1 jar of black honey (340 g) - 1 jar of white honey (250 g) - 2 cans of tuna (140 g per box).

Ingredients of the box for the disabled and handicapped, foreign students and the most needy families:2 bags of rice (800 g per bag) - 1 bag of pasta (350 g) - 1 bag of sugar (400 g) - (400 g) beans - 1 bottle of oil (600 ml) - 1 box of feta cheese (250 g) - 1 bag of flour (1 kg) - 1 bag of powdered milk - 1 bag of lentils (400 g) - 1 jar of tahini (140 g) - 1 jar of black honey (350 g) - 1 candy beef (250 g)

Ingredients of the breadwinner mother's box:Ingredients of the breadwinner mother's box:2 bags of rice (800 grams per bag) - 1 bag of pasta (350 g) - 1 bag of sugar (400 g) - (400 g) beans - 1 bottle of oil (600 ml) - 1 box of feta cheese (250 g) - 1 bag of flour (1 kg) - 1 bag of powdered milk - 1 bag of lentils (400 g) - 1 jar of tahini (140 g) - 1 jar of black honey (350 gm) - 1 Canned Beef (250 gm)

Ingredients of the box for the breadwinner mother:

4 rice (800 gm per bag) - 2 pasta (350 gm per bag) - 2 sugar (400 gm per bag) - 1 bottle of oil (600 ml) - 2 bags of powdered milk (100 gm per bag) - 2 bags of flour (1 kg per bag) - 2 jars of black honey (350 gm per jar) - 2 Canned Beef (250 gm per box) - 2 boxes of feta cheese (250 gm per box) - 1 jar of tahini (140 gm) - 1 bag of lentils with a meal (400 gm) - 1 bag of yellow lentils (400 gm) - 400 gm of beans - 400 gm of broad beans

 

 

 

 

Links:

• http://www.efb.eg