Food bank partners with private company to support 25 underprivileged families

AMMAN — The Jordanian Food Bank (JFB) signed an agreement with the Jordanian Austrian Company to provide food items to underprivileged people. 

The aim of the agreement is to continue combating hunger and assist underprivileged families in local communities, signatories said at the signing ceremony on Thursday.

The deal also highlights the importance of the private sector's role in reducing hunger and achieving food security through developing long-term plans and programmes. 

Under the agreement, the Jordanian Austrian Company is going to provide 25 underprivileged families with food packages every month as well as half a tonne of rice per month from "INTY RICE" in support of various JFB programmes, the signatories said.

"Hunger is not always a result of shortage in available food; it may be due to poor distribution and a lack of social awareness," Jordanian Austrian Company CEO Rashad Garabet said at the signing ceremony. 

"Through our cooperation with the JFB, we seek to avoid wasting food, create social responsibility and use it to meet at least part of the community's needs," he added.

Garabet urged local companies to adopt similar ideas and work with the JFB to contribute to eradicating hunger and poverty, in addition to creating more job opportunities. 

The CEO said he and his staff will work with JFB every month as volunteers, packing food parcels and distributing them to the targeted families. 

JFB Executive Director Kawther Qatarneh stressed the importance of the agreement in promoting charity work through the distribution of food to poor families registered in the bank's database.

Founded in 2010 by a group of businesspeople, the JFB is a nonprofit organisation that works on creating projects and partnerships aimed at reducing hunger in Jordan, according to its website.