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Food banks are sounding the alarm: food rationing for those in need in Germany!
Food banks in Germany are rationing food due to high demand. Reason: increased poverty and stagnating wages.
Food banks are sounding the alarm: food rationing for those in need in Germany!
A storm of human tragedies is sweeping across Germany's tables! Around 60 percent of these volunteer organizations had to make the dramatic decision: food rationing! This means nothing other than that many people in need now have even more limited portions available.
At the forefront of these worrying developments is the head of the Tafel umbrella association, Andreas Steppuhn, who reveals shocking figures to the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung”. Die Welt reported that the food banks are experiencing an alarming 50 percent increase in customers in the wake of the Ukraine crisis. In this depressing scenario, some food banks try to cope with the rush by temporarily stopping admissions or waiting lists. Food is being rationalized to somehow cope with the increasing number of needy people.
The crisis behind the scenes
Of course, there are reasons for this acute emergency: Germany is facing rising living costs while pensions and wages are stagnating. The food banks do heroic work, currently supporting around 1.6 million people in poverty. Yet they can no longer cushion what the state has failed to correct for decades.
Political inaction and winged suggestions
Andreas Steppuhn calls for urgent political action! Basic child support, crisis-proof wages and affordable housing are on his list of necessary changes. The last idea? A reduction in VAT on food, but this is only perceived as a drop in the ocean.
In a social atmosphere that is becoming ever colder, Germany's food banks are seeing increasing numbers of people. This is a clear warning, so report it MSN. The food banks are fighting to help more and more people with creative emergency solutions. A deep look into the abyss!