Food banks in the district allocate food under special conditions

Created: 01/21/2022, 09:00

By: Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss

Food bank chair Heidemarie Ritter and her team in Geretsried and Wolfratshausen provide 700 people with food.

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The food banks are defying the pandemic with new output concepts.

Many customers use the pickup to maintain social contacts.

Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen

– A difficult year lies behind the Tafeln and their customers. In the first half of 2021, no food deliveries were possible due to the pandemic. Instead of attractively designed crates with fruit and vegetables, there were empty shelves. But both the Geretsrieder-Wolfratshauser and the Tölzer Tafel used the time to develop their own serving concepts.

"We have tried to limit contact to the absolute minimum," explains the chairwoman of the Geretsrieder-Wolfratshauser Tafel, Heidemarie Ritter. That means: "All authorized persons had to queue in front of the issuing office on Jeschkenstraße, a Tafel employee recorded the authorization ID number and for how many people food was to be picked up." There are currently around 700 who are dependent on support. "Based on this data, we then packed and handed out bags." When compiling the items, the employees tried to act as individually as possible. "We have some Muslims - pork is taboo there."

With the loosening in summer, the Geretsrieder-Wolfratshauser Tafel also relaxed its concept.

Since then, three customers have been allowed to go to the issuing office on Jeschkenstraße in Geretsried - separated by tables so that the distance is maintained.

At the same time, the number of employees was limited.

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The colleagues in Bad Tölz take care of around 100 collectors and their families.

"We had to stop the distribution at the Lettenholzschule," says Reinhold Pohle, who has been the contact person for the Tölzer Tafel together with Dagmar Karl since 2006.

It was not possible to hand out food in the rooms under Corona conditions.

"The customers from here must now also come to the Südschule on the hospital road." There, shifts are now distributed: from 4:45 p.m. the former Lettenholz customers, from 6 p.m. the Südschul customers.

The large auditorium offers ideal conditions for this.

"We received three air purifiers, and we also leave doors and windows open, so contact is reduced to a minimum." The collectors register at the window and are then handed the prepared box.

The customers are extremely disciplined, reports Pohle.

"In the beginning, a little tutoring was necessary so that the masks were put on in time and no small groups formed.

But that happened quickly.” The pickers would wear their masks from the schoolyard.

"This has now become as normal as buckling up when driving a car," adds Ritter.

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In Bad Tölz as well as in Geretsried, many of those entitled come long before the food is distributed. People, as Pohle has observed, really appreciate the social contact while waiting. Ritter can only emphasize that. “Many are there long before the start of the issue. There is laughter and conversation - albeit at a distance. You can tell how much people miss that.” In the past, before Corona, real cliques even formed. "The customers have arranged to meet to exchange ideas."

How the food distribution will continue this year is in the stars.

Both Tafel chefs are grateful that the shops that provide the food are still behind the work of the volunteers.

During the issuance stop, Ritter asked for a supply stop.

After being allowed to reopen, she went back on tour.

"And the markets continued straight away," says Pohle.

“We have now received a large number of chocolate Santa Clauses.

But chocolate is chocolate, even in the shape of the Holy Man.”

Otherwise, we have to wait and see what politicians say about Corona.

Ritter: "For us, these are the framework conditions that determine the further procedure."

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