LM rosina sniegt papildu pārtikas atbalstu zemu ienākumu mājsaimniecībām

Publicitātes materiāls Atjaunots Okt 5, 2021

Food boxes enter the more than 1 million-square-foot UPS Lone Star distribution center (hub), in Arlington, TX, on August 14, 2020. These boxes are from nearby Pro Pac Quality Packaging where they were packed and labeled for PepsiCo, who partnered with U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Meals to You program, in responded to the school closures due to COVID-19. Packages will ride on this extendable conveyor system and join other packages in the automated system of conveyors, chutes, sensors, sorters and staging systems that will transport them to their best outbound trailer to their next hub or delivery center. UPS and other package delivery services are utilized by PepsiCo and other partners to implemented a logistics solution that get two-week supplemental food boxes to children in rural locations. Today's packages are heading to rural Texas, Puerto Rico, and Alaska. The program includes 41 States and two territories. USDA first began the Meals to You program in 2019 as a three-year demonstration project designed to test a method to deliver nutritious food to children during the summer months in rural areas where the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) is not available to difficult to access. USDA entered into an agreement with Baylor University's Texas Hunger Initiative (now called the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty) for the original demonstration. In response to COVID-19, USDA and its partners were able to leverage the summer demonstration project to ensure rural children had access to food during pandemic-related school closures. The Emergency Meals to You demonstration project continues our public-private partnership with the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty and McLane Global that began in Summer 2019, and additionally includes Pepsi Co. and Chartwells. USDA was able to fund this expansion utilizing funding provided by the CARES Act. Overall, we allocated $185 million for the program (from the $8.8 billion that the CARES Act provided for Child Nutrition.) Meals to You boxes are delivered directly to children's homes via the U.S. Postal Service or another delivery service. Each box contains 20 nutritious, shelf-stable meals, including ten breakfasts and ten lunches/suppers. In participating states, families with students who attend an eligible school or are eligible for free or reduced-price meals may opt-in to receive one box per child every two weeks. The original goal was to serve 1 million meals per week, which was quickly surpassed. The partnership is now serving around 5 million meals per week. For more information about the 1,000,000 meals a week program partnership, please visit: usda.gov/media/press-releases/2020/03/17/usda-announces-feeding-program-partnership-response-covid-19 For more information about FNS Program Guidance on Human Pandemic Response, please visit: fns.usda.gov/disaster/pandemic For additional information and photos please visit the album and see its description:flic.kr/s/aHsmPrXwEiflic.kr/s/aHsmMdK2x3 USDA Media by Lance Cheung. Photographs of a commercial product or enterprise do not constitute an endorsement by the USDA over products or enterprises not shown. Original public domain image from Flickr

Katram cilvēkam zemu ienākumu mājsaimniecībā no 1. oktobra līdz gada beigām būs iespēja saņemt papildu pārtikas komplektu Eiropas Atbalsta fonda vistrūcīgākajām personām atbalsta sniegšanas vietā. Vienlaikus palielināts pārtikas daudzums vienas maltītes pagatavošanai zupas virtuvju apmeklētājiem.

“Laikā, kad t.s rietumu kultūrā, tostarp Latvijā bieži dzirdam par centieniem ēst mazāk un uzturēt slaido līniju, mēs varam viegli piemirst, ka mūsu sabiedrībā ir cilvēki, kuriem ikdienas maltīšu nodrošināšana ir grūtību pilna. Labklājības ministrijā iestājamies par visdažādāko cilvēku atbalstu grūtos brīžos, tāpēc esmu jo īpaši gandarīts, ka esam palielinājuši pārtikas paku daudzumu un porcijas zupas virtuvēm, kas ir nozīmīgs atbalsts trūkumā nonākušiem cilvēkiem,” uzsver labklājības ministrs Gatis Eglītis.

Saņemot papildu pārtikas komplektu ir jāuzrāda derīga pašvaldības sociālā dienesta izsniegta izziņa par atbilstību trūcīgās mājsaimniecības statusam vai maznodrošinātas mājsaimniecības statusam (ar ienākumiem 327 EUR pirmajai vai vienīgajai personai mājsaimniecībā, bet katrai nākamai personai 229 EUR), vai arī krīzes situācijā nonākušās mājsaimniecības statusam.

Minēto paredz otrdien, 5. oktobrī, valdības sēdē apstiprinātie grozījumi Ministru kabineta noteikumos „Darbības programmas ”Pārtikas un pamata materiālās palīdzības sniegšana vistrūcīgākajām personām 2014.-2020. gada plānošanas periodā” īstenošanas noteikumi”.

Atgādinām, ka šobrīd 26 partnerorganizācijas (nevalstiskās organizācijas, reliģiskas organizācijas, pašvaldības, pašvaldību sociālie dienesti) visā Latvijā nodrošina Eiropas Atbalsta fonda atbalsta paku izdali 446 vietā un izsniedz gatavas maltītes 29 zupas virtuvēs.

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