The new headquarters of the Guadalajara Food Bank were inaugurated this week, with the institution’s President José Luis Íñigo González promising to deliver 17,000 tons of supplies to low-income families throughout Jalisco by the end of 2023.
The 10,000-square-meter facility is located in the Tlaquepaque suburb of Santa María Tequepexpan, and cost around 340 million pesos to build. The land was donated by the state government.
González Íñigo said the new facility represents another step in the combined efforts of the business sector, civil society and the state government to get closer to the goal of “zero hunger” in Jalisco.
Prior to the Covid pandemic the Food Bank was delivering up to 19,000, 20-kilogram despensas (food parcels) each month to disadvantaged families, González Íñigo said. As the pandemic developed causing much economic hardship, that number rose to around 60,000.
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