Bogotá, Colombia, May 14, 2019 / 15:28 pm
A major food bank in Bogota, Colombia, is calling for local people and organizations to partner with them as they serve hundreds of thousands of at-risk people in the area.
"It's important for the people to be well fed, and have a culture of good habits, [and to] accompany the poorest so their children can go to school, and for the older adults to be placed in jobs," said Fr. Daniel Saldarriaga, executive director of the Archdiocesan Food Bank of Bogota, Colombia.
The Bogota Food Bank is a completely self-sustaining foundation that began in 2001 with the goal of responding to Pope John Paul II's call in the Apostolic Letter "Novo Millenio Ineunte."
The bank has a group of 126 collaborators that serve as "a bridge" that joins them to the most needy, and allows them to reach more than 313,000 people in at-risk conditions in Bogota.