10 Facts About Food bank

Food bank is a non-profit, charitable organization that distributes food to those who have difficulty purchasing enough to avoid hunger, usually through intermediaries like food pantries and soup kitchens.

St Mary's Food Bank was the world's first food bank, established in the US in 1967.

Food bank started collecting that food for the dining room but soon had too much for that one program.

Food bank thought of creating a central location from which any agency can receive donations.

Demand for the services of US food bank increased further in the late 1990s, after the "end of welfare as we know it" with Bill Clinton's Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act.

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Food bank use has increased since Universal Credit was implemented as part of the Welfare Reform Act 2012.

Joint report from the Trussell Trust, the Church of England, and the charities Oxfam and Child Poverty Action Group found that food bank users were more likely to live in rented accommodation, be single adults or lone parents, be unemployed, and have experienced a “sanction”, where their unemployment benefits were cut for at least one month.

Haroon Siddiqui said that the rise in food bank use coincided with the imposition of austerity and feels the government are reluctant to admit the obvious link.

The Trussell Trust, the UK's biggest food bank network, has said that they help people with "nowhere else to turn".

Delhi Food Bank is an organization that feeds, empowers and transforms lives in the New Delhi–NCR Region.