Fedex dona 3.000 kilos of tomatoes and cucumbers to soup kitchens.

THE FRUIT COMES FROM THE VILLAGE AND THE SOUTHEAST OF GRAN CANARIA.

The Federation of Associations of Exporters of Horticultural Products of Las Palmas, Fedex, has begun to distribute three tons of seasonal tomatoes and cucumbers in soup kitchens in Gran Canaria, to whom you have decided to donate them to help people without resources.

Fedex spokesperson, Roberto Goiriz, highlighted that, once the exports are finished and in the face of the crisis that affects the Canary Islands society, The sector has decided to make this donation before the end of the current campaign. In this sense, Góiriz recalled that the only cooperative that remains exporting tomatoes is COAGRISAN.

To carry out this action, Fedex has addressed various NGOs such as Cáritas or the Colegio del Carmen, whose dining rooms are not enough to feed a number, growing, of users.

The distribution of fruit and vegetable products from Fedex began last week and will continue in the coming days, According to Goiriz. In addition, He called on those entities that need this type of food so that they do not hesitate to request them from the employers., who will gladly provide them before the activity of the sector definitively ends..

Roberto Góiriz declared that the products that Fedex is donating come from, mainly, from La Aldea de San Nicolás and the southeast of Gran Canaria.