After a visit to Stockport Foodbank where Alena saw a foodbank in operation first hand, she went back to her home town in Belarus and started one there. We believe this is the first in Belarus. She set up a trial scheme first, and it was so successful that the new foodbank is now supporting many in need.
The Trussell Trust runs the largest network of foodbanks in the UK, giving emergency food and support to people in crisis. Thirteen million people live below the poverty line and in the last year we gave 1,332,952 three-day emergency food supplies to people in crisis.
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