Hot lunch in the conditions of the pandemic of COVID-19 in the Municipality of Kyustendil

The project envisages preparation and delivery a hot lunch to the home of vulnerable citizens who, due to poverty and prolonged social isolation, in the conditions of a crisis resulting from the spread of COVID-19 are in difficulty to provide for themselves. The preparation and delivery of the hot lunch will be carried out by the Municipality of Kyustendil through the Complex for Social Services / CSS/ - Kyustendil, which currently provides the service "Home Social Patronage" and provides "Hot Lunch" under the procedure Providing hot lunch -2016-2020. CSS has many years of practice in providing such services to provide the necessary individual care and support to the population in the municipality of Kyustendil and it has: - material base and equipment for food preparation, which meets the requirements of the Food law; - adequate capacity - technical, financial and administrative, organizational work processes, provided storage facilities, capacity to implement accompanying measures, in addition to the provision of food; - adequate capacity for delivery of prepared food to the homes of end users within the municipality, in compliance with all sanitary and hygienic requirements and requirements for food transportation, according to the Food law, when anti-epidemic measures require it. CSS guarantees the provision of a varied, healthy and quality weekly menu, in compliance with all sanitary and hygienic requirements. In implementation of the activities under the project proposal of the Municipality of Kyustendil, a mechanism for prevention of food waste and a mechanism for feedback with end users will be applied. The implementation of the project will complement and expand the scope of complex national measures on the territory of Kyustendil municipality to overcome the consequences of the crisis with a focus on the most people in need.

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