In total, 4.1% of the population lives with moderate or severe food insecurity. Through social security, there is 1.250 families receiving food help, mAs the answer is not enough for everyone. There are three hundred people on a waiting list.
Lack of food is a concern for more than 600 Thousand Portuguese. Uncertainty is even greater in the case of families with children. Lots of live dependent on the help of organizations such as .
O Social Restaurant da Ami No Porto work seven Days a week, every day of the year. They are 200 daily mealsessential for those who do not have the means to cook.
“These are homeless people, migrant people, people who can’t make food because they live in rooms and don’t have access to a kitchen, people who are VIsee in Tents, …”, He explains Juliana Carvalho, Social Worker at Centro Porta Amiga do Porto.
Since 2012 Fernando Pina has resorted to this help. “I come here because, in fact, I don’t have another place to eat.”
Through social security, there is 1.250 families receiving food once a month. But the answer is not enough for everyone. There are 300 people on waiting list. “It’s scary”admits Juliana Carvalho.
From a pandemia that or order numbers has fired. THE Profile of those who ask for help also changed.
“These are people who, many of them, work. But who, due to the great expense of housing, cannot face everything.”
Data from the National Institute of Statistics reveal that 6.2% of the population – which is equivalent to about 660 thousand people – Live worried for not having enough food. A reality that mainly affects families with children: 6.5% cannot consume healthy and nutritious foods e 1.7% admit that I feltu Hunger without having something to eat.
Not total, 4.1% of the population, About 436 thousand people, lives with moderate or severe food insecurity. The number lowered slightly in relation to 2023.
