Ibiza Food Bank

Urgent appeal

Hi everyone. Firstly, thank you to everyone who has donated since my last update.

I thought I should keep you all updated with this fast moving situation.

We have been asked by many Ukrainian groups, as a matter of urgency to send medicine. We have spent the last 24 hours researching the best way of sending medicine. As you are probably aware this is not as easy as it sounds. However, we have been in contact with an incredible Spanish NGO Apotecaris Solidaris. They specialize in sending medicines into war zones to help civilians. They buy medicine directly from the producers, they can also buy prescription medicine. Best of all, they buy cheaper than anyone else and they take the medicine into Ukraine and to the Polish border as an official NGO. They tick all the boxes. Therefore yesterday we sent them a 10000 euro donation.

We are now working on a plan to send more medicine and sanitary products, baby food, and dry food.

We are also working on another plan to bring 30 families to Ibiza. We have been offered buses , we now need accommodation and work for some of the people. Finding Work will not be a problem as there is already a shortage of workers this summer, finding generous people to offer accommodation is key to this plan. I am speaking with the Spanish authorities on how this will work as regards to work permits.

I will keep you all updated. Again, thank you for your incredible support.

Luke

If you can help message me at [email protected] : to donate https://gofund.me/e8205e4e

MESSAGE TO ALL OUR AMAZING DONORS

Ukraine and Ibiza Food Bank.

I am sending this update to inform all our wonderful supporters of some very important news.

Ibiza Food Bank will be closing its operations in Ibiza.

1) Ibiza Food Bank

We are happy to inform you we have achieved our objective and have managed, with your help to support many thousands of people in Ibiza throughout this incredible journey. In total we have raised over 160000 euros and together with our partners Carritos Solidarios and our army of volunteers we have collected and distributed well over 1 million kg of food./ sanitary products / medicines. We are very proud to announce that every 1 euro of cash we raised, we converted into 10 euros worth of food. This is due to all the food we collected via our network of amazing volunteers and incredible supporters on the island. Its great news that we can announce today - job done!!

2) Ukraine:

Everybody will be aware of the tragedy unfolding in the Ukraine. Ibiza Food Bank still has some spare funds and we will be using these funds to support Ukrainian families. We will be sending a truck once a month from Ibiza to Ukraine with essential items such as dry foods, medicine, baby food, formula for babies, nappies, and sanitary products . We are being advised what items are most urgently needed by Ukrainian families living in Ibiza. We have the funds to send the first truck but we will be raising funds to send a second and third truck. If you wish to support our trucks please use the same links on our go fund me page.

Thank you for all your support over the past 2 years, we are so grateful.

Kind regards

Luke , Tina , Cat and Marco

As the winter hits hard for a lot of people in Ibiza again we will be cranking up our fundraising to ensure that no one on the Island goes hungry this year.

First up is the wonderful people at theHUB. Ibiza supporting us through their annual winter market.

Our Winter Market in partnership with Ibiza Food Bank is back 🎅

Join us for our traditional market stalls, local gifts, kids games & activities, Santa’s Grotto, mulled wine, restaurant pop-ups, and live entertainment 🎄

Starting Saturday 4th December from 12:00h - 21:00h ⛄️

Book your tickets here 👉 https://www.yourhubibiza.com/winter-market

We urgently need some reliable volunteers to help us over the summer delivering food parcels around the Island.

If you have a few hours free on a Wednesday and have your own car, drop us a PM and we will get back to you!

The sun is shining here in Ibiza and we are ready to get into a Friday vibe kicking off the Defected Records Hï Ibiza and Eden Ibiza (Official Fan Page) live stream on the Defected Twitch page, starting at 13.00 CET.

https://www.twitch.tv/defectedrecords

You might notice, dotted around Ibiza these posters for Carritos Solidarios Marco Martín and Ibiza Food Bank.

Getting the message out there, not only that we are desperate for donations but also that if you need help, how to get it has been so important to ensure that no one goes hungry on the Island.

A huge thanks to Ibiza publicidad for donating these boards to us.

🥚Happy Easter to everyone who has supported us over the last year

An incredible 2 cars full of food from Colegio Mestral Ibiza today.
A huge thanks to all the teacher, parents and staff for all their generous donations!

Carritos Solidarios Marco Martín

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💙This is the final weekend to stack up those KM's for our challenge and the weather is perfect for a long hike (especially as you can now stop at a bar for a well deserved beer when you are finished!)💙

We have so far managed to raise almost €3,000 and the total is still rising, if you know someone who is participating then don't forget Wednesday 31st of March is the final day to sponsor them!

We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has joined our March against food poverty this month.

🍒 A huge thanks to The Pacha foundation.🍒

Fundación Pacha dona 12.300 euros a bancos de alimentos de Ibiza Carritos Solidarios recibe 7.300 euros para comprar comida

Business Fights Poverty collaborates with experts and partners to challenge societal problems ranging from gender equality to food poverty.

We are incredibly grateful for their donation of €1000 towards our most recent appeal for funds to enable us to continue to give families vouchers for Eroski Supermarkets.

Challenges - Business Fights Poverty We work as a community to identify and address specific, strategic questions about how to harness and scale the positive impact of business on people or planet.

☀️Every week we are collecting 12 tonnes of donations from Eroski SPAR and Hiper Centro around Ibiza. ☀️

☀️In addition to this we have raised over €100K in financial donations.☀️

Its now coming up for 1 year since we started and we have grown and learned so much since then.

With everyone working under the umbrella of the incredible Carritos Solidarios Marco Martín we continue to feed a huge number of families and individuals on the Island.

FOOD for IBIZA Madre Teresa Ibiza Equip Voluntari APNEEF Ibiza Y Formentera Médicos del Mundo España Magna Pityusa Adra Creu Roja Illes Balears
Cáritas Diocesana de Ibiza

Thanks for these wonderful images Gypsy Westwood Photography
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Gypsy is taking part in our initiative...and will be running 60 km during March in support of Ibiza Food Bank.
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Don't forget to tag us in your walks/hikes/runs this March!
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Check out our second March 4 Ibiza suggested playlist, if it doesn't put a bounce in your step then we don't know what will.

This weeks mix is from the talented Island favourite Clara Da Costa and is her tribute to Frankie Knuckles recorded for IBIZA SONICA RADIO

Don't forget to tag us in your posts with

http://bit.ly/Walk4IbizafrankieKnucklesmix

LIVE JACKS HOUSE SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO FRANKIE KNUCKLES 04/04/14 Ibiza Sonica. Live recording mixed on original vinyl of Jacks House special tribute show to the God Father of House, Frankie Knuckles on Ibiza Sonica Radio. Thank you Frankie. Your music will live on, on our dance

As you know Ibiza Food Bank has a whole team of people behind it, working together to help end food poverty on the Island.

What you might not know is that a large majority of those people are women.

With that in mind, today on International Women's day we want to say a huge thank you to our army of amazing chicas. Clare Maciocia Cat Tettero Sammy Dackombe Jacqueline Wix Manon Iovino Tina Browning Michelle Peppe alongside fo our incredible team of volunteers who work tirelessly to collect and deliver food, raise funds and awareness and do it all with massive smiles on their faces!

One of the main reasons that the Carritos Solidarios Marco Martín initiative has been so successful is that many people around the Island have pulled together to fight the current situation. One of those people is Antonio Moya Casanova director of Eroski supermarkets on the Island.

Volunteers have collected over 200,000 kilos of food over the last year out side Eroskis around the Island!

La sección solidaria del ‘super’ Eroski ofrece varias líneas de ayudas a organizaciones benéficas y ONG que están al pié del cañón ante la crisis que atravesamos. La cadena de supermercados Eroski, bajo la batuta de su gerente en las Pitiúsas, Antonio Moya, viene desarrollando distintas iniciativas orientadas a la ayuda de q...

There is no better way to get your stomp on than a killer sound track.

Our friends at Melon Bomb have created this mix especially for Ibiza Food bank and .

If you want to add a cheeky wiggle to your walk check out the link below, get your walking boots on and get moving!

Ibiza Food Bank Sponsered Walk In the five short years of its existence, Melon Bomb has become one of the most well known and respected party brands in Ibiza and truly encapsulates Ibiza’s magic and the essence of the island’s hedo

We have been blown away by the response to our "Walk 4 Ibiza" initiative. ❤️

And despite the weather taking a turn for the worse we want you to put your best foot forward and start counting up the kilometres.

We love the Strava app for tracking each walk that you do or check out Relive to watch the video of your walk afterwards.

Still want to register? Head to http://bit.ly/IFBsignup and register!
https://www.strava.com/mobile
https://www.relive.cc/?hl=en

Who fancy's getting their walking boots on in aid of Ibiza Food Bank this month?

To celebrate The Day of the Balearics, this March we want you to march to help stamp out food poverty on the Island.

You can walk, run, cycle, skip, hop or dance your way to a target of 60km (the combined length and breadth of Ibiza) over the Month of March. Or for little or less able feet there is also the 20km Challenge.

Taking part couldn't be simpler.
Sign up, lace up, pick your distance and GO!

With the Islands Main Food Bank desperately low we are hoping to reach a target of €10,000 over the month of March,

Click the link below to register, then simply send your family and friends the sponsorship link and get moving!

https://ibizafoodbank.com/support-us/march-for-ibiza/

This is the very stark reality right now at the main food bank at Sa Coma. Lots of very empty shelves. We desperately need donations to continue to help families in need on the Island.

This 1 food bank is used by 11 associations who are feeding collectively 7,000 people every week.

PLEASE if you see a donation trolly at your supermarket pop something in there, it doesn't matter how small it is, every donation is tiny ray of hope for someone who is struggling.

What we need right now? Milk, tins of fruit and veg, cereal, cleaning products, lactose and gluten free items, baby milk and nappies.

Or you can make a donation to our GoFundMe page https://gofund.me/9a303d5c

As the crisis continues to grow, we have more and more people reaching out for help. In order to feed them all we desperately need more food donations.

You can donate in Eroski, Hipercentro and Spar Supermarkets across the Island and even the smallest donation is very gratefully received.

Alternatively head to our GoFundMe page https://gofund.me/9a303d5c to make a financial donation.

As always we are so grateful for all of the support we continue to receive from you all but the crisis isn't over...sadly it is worse than ever. Please give what you can.

This is the current situation at the warehouses of Cáritas Diocesana de Ibiza and sadly this is repeated in the main warehouse in Sa Coma also. Almost empty shelves and the number of people that need help rising every day.

We desperately need food donations to continue to feed the families that have been affected by the crisis.

How can you help?
-Donation trollies are located at Eroski Spar & Hipercentros across the Island, simply do your weekly shop and donate what ever you can, how ever small!
-Donate via our GoFund Me page https://gofund.me/9a303d5c
-Volunteer! We urgently need volunteers to work with the super market trollies collecting food donations.

It is always such a pleasure to see so many of the schools on the Island getting behind the charities that are raising money and collecting food for those families that are struggling right now.

A huge thanks to Morna International College they have collected today an amazing €1795 which will be buying coupons for Eroski and helping to top up the food parcels that people receive.

In addition to the wonderful pupils and their families from
Colegio Mestral Ibiza who have collected today 2 cars full of food, which is already at Sa Coma awaiting delivery to families!

Thanks so much to everyone involved!

Great to see the Islands restaurants and bars coming together, despite suffering such hard times themselves, to donate food to Carritos Solidarios Marco Martín 💗💗💗💗💗


https://www.diariodeibiza.es/pitiuses-balears/2021/01/25/pimeef-restauracion-impulsa-recogida-alimentos/1199294.html

Pimeef Restauración impulsa una recogida de alimentos en Ibiza La campaña dirigida a bares, cafeterías y restaurantes comienza mañana en Sant Antoni con el objetivo de ayudar a Cáritas y a Carritos Marco Martín

We want to say a massive thank you to these two wonderful ladies Kerryann Young and Sadie Mills who have raised €14,142 with The Great Big Raffle and GoFund Me Page.❤️❤️
As you can imagine, January and February are going to be some of the most gruelling months that the Island has faced and this amazing total will be used to buy vouchers from Eroski and Spar which allow people to buy the fresh produce that they need for their families.

Many thanks to everyone who have bought tickets and donated!

A very Happy New Year to all our supporters!

What a year it's been, we've collected food, enlisted volunteers, created a live stream, spoken to schools and colleges, joined forces with some of the best associations on the island and collected a huge amount of money. We will be continuing all of our work into 2021 and beyond!

Find out if you are one of the lucky winners of The Big Christmas Raffle!!!

Head to https://vimeo.com/494137584?fbclid=IwAR1jTfgCx4nEczJ5ay3gQrGWhhwkxDBwZEFdWnPDQ8UppT0QFz54acV32u0 to find out more!

The Big Xmas Raffle Prize Draw This is "The Big Xmas Raffle Prize Draw" by The Experience Collective on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.