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83 volunteers of Tantaka collaborate in the Great Collection
Tantaka has joined once again this year the Gran Recogida del Food Bank of Navarra of Navarra held on November 27th and 28th. In total, 84 volunteers from the Solidarity Time Bank of the University of Navarra covered the shifts of four establishments in the Pamplona region.
Thus, the Olabidea, Aldaz, Belagua and Goimendi schools distributed the hours of the supermarkets Aldi Cordovilla, Dia Cordovilla, Lidl Cordovilla and BM de Barañain. They also counted with the partnership of two other volunteers who were included in different shifts.
This edition of the Great Collection has had a special meaning for Tantaka and for the Food Bank of Navarra, given the recent death of Paco Sancho, three days before the last Great Collection. Paco Sancho, professor at School of Communication, was one of the first volunteers of this service and author of the designs of the posters of the large collections carried out in Navarra until May 2015. Social networks(Twitter and Facebook) collected some messages of thanks.
The Food Bank of Navarra estimates that this campaign, in which 3,200 volunteers have collaborated in 275 establishments throughout the region, has allowed the collection of more than 500,000 kilos of food.
Some volunteers
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high school Mayor Aldaz The high school Mayor Aldaz collaborated in the collection of food from the BM supermarket in Barañáin. Fifteen volunteers participated. María Castillo, a student at School of Medicine, was in charge of coordinating the shifts. She explains that the volunteer activities has helped them to grow in generosity, especially with their time: "We are in exams and it is difficult to combine schedules, but it has been a worthwhile experience in which you discover that by giving you give of yourself". |
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Colegio Mayor Belagua "We were approached by a lady interested in the Big Collection. We offered her all the information but she told us that she only had just enough money to make her purchase. However, when she finished paying she came up to us and gave us a bag full of vegetables and told us that she would come back to make her purchase another day". This is how Pablo Gasull, student of Philosophy and Journalism, summed up the most endearing anecdote of the two conference. Pablo is the coordinator of the 22 students of the high school Mayor Belagua Torre I students who were at the Aldi supermarket in Cordovilla. Also about what this experience has meant to him, he assures that every drop counts: "Individually we are nothing, but together we can do great things. In the end, big things are made from small things". |
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Colegio Mayor Goimendi Clara Cabrera, a nursing student at the University, is aware that this volunteer activities has helped them: "It has been exemplary to see how people who have a real need have collaborated in the campaign by buying food. Personally, it has made me think again about the harsh reality we are living". Clara has been the coordinator of the 24 students who have helped to fill the boxes at Lidl Cordovilla. She pointed out that as a high school senior it has also helped them: "We have been responsible for something big". |
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Colegio Mayor Olabidea The fact that an elderly lady comes to the supermarket just to compare food for the Gran Recogida or to see that a parent invests 100 euros in food for this campaign are some of the actions that have marked the volunteers of the high school Mayor Olabidea volunteers who were at the Día supermarket in Cordovilla. This is how Carla Larrea, Nursing student and coordinator of this volunteer activities in her senior high school explains it: "It has been an incredible experience. Most of the volunteers would like to repeat it. It has helped us to appreciate and give thanks because every day we have something to eat. And not just for lunch, but for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Doing volunteer activities makes you get out of yourself and see other realities". |