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The Gran Recogida foodbank drive goes virtual due to the pandemic
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...need to reduce physical contact, Bancosol has moved this 'Gran Recogida' online, so that people can donate money which will be used to buy food for those in need. HOW TO DONATE Supermarket check-outs. Choose an amount to donate and this will be added ... Recogida is lasting for a week from 16 to 22 November. The aim is to raise 700,000 euros to buy 1,200,000 kilos of food, especially vegetable oil, pulses, tinned food and milk, which are the items most needed. Last year people in Malaga province donated ... more than 600,000 kilos of foods for the Gran Recogida, but now that more people are suffering financial problems as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, a lot more food is needed. Bancosol says the situation is critical. "Every single person we help