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Support our Soup Day 2022 at Credit Suisse!

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With Credit Suisse's internal Soup Day recipe challenge and Soup Day in our staff restaurants we support Schweizer Tafel to raise funds and to shed light on their extremely important work.

For almost 20 years, the Foundation "Schweizer Tafel" has been distributing free groceries to more than 500 social institutions such as shelters for the homeless, street kitchens, emergency shelters and aid organizations. The perfectly edible food comes mainly from Swiss wholesalers, producers or even retailers who donate their surplus goods to the Schweizer Tafel. Around 16 tons of food come together every day. The Schweizer Tafel reduces food waste and at the same time helps people in need and in financial difficulties.

About 722,000 people in Switzerland (=8.%% of the population) lived below the poverty line in 2020 and we produce around 2.8 million tons of food waste each year in Switzerland, of which 60% would still be edible. Schweizer Tafel is determined to solve the problems of poverty and food waste in Switzerland and builds the bridge from this excess to scarcity.

For more than 20 years, Schweizer Tafel has been distributing surplus, but perfectly edible food free of charge to charitable institutions that look after people in need in Switzerland. Volunteers, reintegration program participants, and civilian service members distribute over 18 tons of food that results in 36,000 meals in 12 regions in Switzerland - per day. In 2021, Schweizer Tafel distributed 4,762 tons of food to social institutions. Food that would otherwise have had to be disposed of became the equivalent of more than 9,4 million meals for people in need.

With Credit Suisse's recipe challenge for Soup Day we would like to encourage our colleagues at Credit Suisse to participate in this challenge. Join us for Soup Day in your staff restaurant, enjoy some delicious soup, and donate to support the Schweizer Tafel.

If you don't have a Soup Day location near you, we thank you for your donation by credit card and TWINT that carries on the charitable work of Schweizer Tafel.

Stiftung Schweizer Tafel

Unser Motto lautet «Essen verteilen – Armut lindern». Täglich sammeln wir bei Produzenten, Grossverteilern und Detaillisten rund 30 Tonnen einwandfreie Lebensmittel ein und verteilen diese kostenlos an soziale Institutionen wie beispielsweise Obdachlosenheime, Gassenküchen, Notunterkünfte und andere Hilfswerke. Diese Organisationen kümmern sich um armutsbetroffene und benachteiligte Menschen. Die Lieferungen entlasten deren Budgets nachhaltig. Die Lebensmittel, bei welchen das Verkaufs-, nicht aber das Verbrauchsdatum abgelaufen ist, sind einwandfrei und können so sinnvoll weiterverwendet anstatt weggeworfen werden.

8.2 % der Schweizer Bevölkerung ist armutsbetroffen und jährlich werden 2.8 Millionen Tonnen Lebensmittel in der Schweiz verschwendet. Durch die unkomplizierte und direkte kostenlose Verteilung von überschüssigen aber noch einwandfreien Lebensmittel, leistet die Schweizer Tafel einen Beitrag zur Linderung der Armut.

Die Schweizer Tafel engagiert sich auch für die Reintegration von Mensch – sie gibt ihnen eine sinnvolle Aufgabe als Fahrerin, Fahrer oder Bürokraft und bietet Starthilfe zur Wiedereingliederung in das Arbeitsleben.

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Carole Marzanato

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