{"id":152071,"date":"2016-12-09T17:38:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T15:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=152071\/"},"modified":"2016-12-09T17:38:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T15:38:34","slug":"first-food-bank-established-in-romania-with-the-support-of-the-romanian-orthodox-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/first-food-bank-established-in-romania-with-the-support-of-the-romanian-orthodox-church\/","title":{"rendered":"First Food Bank established in Romania with the support of the Romanian Orthodox Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Local Food Bank Project in Bucharest\u2019s Sector 6 was launched Wednesday, 7 December 2016, at <em>Golescu-Grant<\/em> Centre for Recreation and Personal Development. The General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection (DAGSP) in Sector 6 implements the project, in partnership with Sector 6 branch of Diaconia Association.<\/p>\n<p>The event was attended by the Mayor of Sector 6, Mr\u00a0Gabriel Mutu, the General Manager of DAGSP Sector 6, Mrs\u00a0Gabriela Schmutzer, and the dean of Sector 6 Deanery, Archpriest Costel Burlacu.<\/p>\n<p>The Local Food Bank in Sector 6 is the first institution of this type established by a local authority in Romania, in accordance with the principles of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurofoodbank.org\/\">European Federation of Food Banks<\/a> (FEBA), a EU Platform that brings together 70 organizations, being focused on fighting food waste and on calling for solidarity across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Gabriel Mutu pointed out that the Romanian Orthodox Church provided the land (5000 sq.m.) on which the Local Food Bank will carry out its activities.<\/p>\n<p>This Local Food Bank in Sector 6 meets the food needs of disadvantaged people, single mothers with children, elderly, unemployed or disabled persons.<\/p>\n<p>In his turn, Archpriest Costel Burlacu recalled the significance of December 7, being the day when the merciful <a href=\"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/st-philothea-of-thrace-the-protectress-of-romania\/\">Saint <\/a>Philotheia of Arge\u0219 is celebrated. He went on saying that the Romanian Orthodox Church is concerned with the needs of people.<\/p>\n<p>Over 35,000 vulnerable persons in the community are estimated to receive food through the Local Food Bank in Sector 6.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/0M8A2225-6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-151940 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/0M8A2225-6-890x407.jpg\" alt=\"Prima Banc\u0103 de Alimente din Rom\u00e2nia\" width=\"890\" height=\"407\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Local Food Bank Project in Bucharest\u2019s Sector 6 was launched Wednesday, 7 December 2016, at Golescu-Grant Centre for Recreation and Personal Development. The General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection (DAGSP) in Sector 6 implements the project, in partnership with Sector 6 branch of Diaconia Association. The event was attended by the Mayor&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":152072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,34],"tags":[123,4551,4550,53,1615,241],"class_list":["post-152071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-romanian-patriarchate","category-social-en","tag-bucharest","tag-food","tag-food-bank","tag-romanian-orthodox-church","tag-sector-6","tag-social"],"better_featured_image":{"id":152072,"alt_text":"First Local Food Bank in Romania","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":889,"height":459,"file":"2016\/12\/DSC_6832-31.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"DSC_6832-31-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC_6832-31-360x360.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"4.5","credit":"\u00a9 913 Creative","camera":"Canon EOS 5D Mark III","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1481112240","copyright":"\u00a9 913 Creative","focal_length":"70","iso":"2500","shutter_speed":"0.00625","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":152071,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DSC_6832-31.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152071\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=152071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152071\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152072\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=152071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=152071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=152071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}