The Food Bank of Asturias has collected more than 300 children’s food items from EDP employees. This delivery is the result of an initiative of collecting that was carried out in the energy company during the Christmas period. Each person received one invitation to take part in a children’s event per food delivered.

Children’s food items, as pointed out by one of the responsible of the Food Bank of Asturias, María Velasco, “are one of the biggest needs of the Bank, because, apart from not being perishable, they answer to one of the basic bases of the children’s feeding.” By delivering them, the organization will look after vulnerable families and collectives in risk of exclusion.

Among the food items collected by the Food Bank, there is cereal baby food, baby milk, purée and dairy desserts.

It is the fifth consecutive year that the EDP employees take part in this initiative. Since then, they have collaborated with the delivery of more than 1 500 children’s food items to the Food Bank.

Moreover, this tight relationship also extends to the EDP Foundation, that funded in 2018 a new lighting system of the installations of the Food Bank of Asturias in Argame, Morcín. This project with LED technology enables the entity to reduce the lighting consumption by 80%.