As of: February 11, 2024, 5:00 p.m
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There is great rejoicing: Pastor Martin Dubberke (7th from left) and his team are happy about the donations for the food bank.
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Pastor Martin Dubberke needs 1,000 euros every week to shop.
Food that no longer reaches the food bank but is urgently needed.
The Tagblatt collected more than 80,000 euros for this during its Christmas campaign.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
– One and a half carefree years for the food bank – the readers of the Garmisch-Partenkirchner/Murnauer Tagblatt make it possible.
“This is a sensational result,” says Pastor Martin Dubberke in view of the 80,647 euros that were credited to the Community Value Added Community Foundation’s accounts during the Christmas campaign.
“Great, I didn't expect so much.” The generous donors ensure that the 330 Tafel customers across the district, with an average of three to four family members, will have fully stocked distribution points again in the future.
In order to provide them all with the essentials for a week, Dubberke needs an additional 1,000 euros.
Now that the supermarkets, the largest suppliers to the distribution points so far, have changed their inventory management, there is significantly less left.
The unfortunate consequence: “Compared to before, we only have a quarter of what we spend,” says the person responsible for the food bank.
Fresh products have been increasingly lacking recently
Thanks to the donations - including 10,000 euros from the community foundation - "we can now buy more, we don't have to send anyone home and we can perhaps also relax the admission freeze," emphasizes Dubberke.
Fresh products such as fruit and vegetables in particular have been increasingly missing recently.
“But that is important for a healthy diet.” As a result, these are purchased just like non-perishable goods in order to present people with a small budget with a balanced offering.
Ulrich Willburger, the chairman of the community foundation, is particularly pleased about the large number of donors.
420 individual bookings, including small amounts, were received.
“It’s great that there is so much solidarity in the district with people who are not on the sunny side of life.” The concern has been received.
Dubberke shares this assessment.
“The reporting made our work very visible,” he says.
“It was also good for the team to feel that so many people supported our work.” Further proof of this was that during this time, more people with full shopping bags rang his doorbell and dropped off pasta and pesto, for example.
Tagblatt Christmas Campaign has been supporting projects and organizations for years
Andreas Seiler is also happy about such feedback.
Every year it is a huge effort for the deputy editorial director and his team to manage the Christmas campaign.
But one they are happy to take on.
“We also want to give something back,” he emphasizes.
That's why the local newspaper has been supporting a project or organization that broadcasts across the district for decades.
Like the Tafel with its distribution points in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Mittenwald, Murnau and Oberammergau.
“We are pleased that they will be able to meet their customers’ needs and purchase accordingly over the next year and a half.”
That's exactly what Dubberke and his team plan to do.
“100 percent of the money goes to the cause for which it was donated,” assures the Protestant pastor.
So directly to the people who stock up on food for themselves and their families every week at the Tafel.