Fire personnel from the Almuñécar fire station have been busy collecting food for the food banks via the church charity, Cáritas.

Between them they managed to organised and collect 800 kilos of food and other items of prime necessity.

“People have given generously through donations,” said the Councillor for Citizen Safety, Francisco Robles Rivas, who was present when the fire personnel handed over the “booty” to the parish priest.

But the fire-service personnel are not the only people who have carried out such food-donation collections because Swedish and Norwegian associations have donated food bought with the 700 euros that their members had put towards the task.

Fire Chief, José Luis Varela, expressed his thanks on behalf of the Almuñécar Fire Service to all those that gave generously.

Some of the items obtained for the food bank are: 6,000 babies’ nappies, 1,860 packets of wipes, 200 packets of sanitary towels, 194 kilos of rice and legumbres, 164 boxes of cereals & packets of nuts, 194 packets of pasta, 67 kilos of sugar, 175 litres of milk, 11 tins of dried milk, 55 kilos of flour, 75 bottles of shampoo, 81 litres of cooking oil, 168 3-packs of tuna, 202 packets of tomato puree, 16 kilos of drinking chocolate, boxes of oranges, avocados, etc.

The Cáritas coordinator, Inma Corral, expressed her thanks: “the contribution from the fire service means a lot, because we had run out of many items,” adding, “Almuñécar is a town given to solidarity so this collection has been a total success.”

She pointed out that they would begin distributing food to some 200 families in need.

(News: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)