today, father christmas was dressed in yellow and black for around 3000 exposed danes.
Three locations across the country, they could fill the bags with fresh fruit, vegetables, bread, meat, cakes and cold meats, as the Net juleaftens morning shared free food.
– It is food that would have otherwise been thrown out, because it can’t keep over the christmas holiday, tells Braw Bakir, who is sales manager in the Net.
– In the way they do us a service. We get rid of food waste, he says and explains that the unbelievable huge amount of food has been driven in from the shops that are closed over christmas.
The many people who stood in the queue in front of the Net, had all either been – or been handed – free food. Photo: Kenneth Meyer
In the shop at Frederiksberg in Copenhagen stretched the queue between 70 and 100 metres outside of the business, and the hundreds of excited people waited up to an hour and a half on their trip.
We waited a little over an hour, but it was completely okay for the (Net-employees, red.) came out with coffee and cake for us in the queue. So it was actually nice to stand there, telling a mother, who, together with her adult daughter has just come out of the Net with the bags filled with organic vegetables, which ‘otherwise is it, that quickly gets cut from in a the pressure of the everyday’.
Parts of the shop was blocked by. So, for example, alcohol, soft drinks and canned foods were not a part of the free surplus food. Photo: Kenneth Meyer.
At the shopping entrance was tickets, which the disadvantaged have sought for, handed over to a Net-employee. In return they got two large carrier bags, which could be filled by lust.
Outside makes Kenneth a 25 year status. He is satisfied with his catch, and he is looking forward to the next days, where he did not have to worry about the cost of food. Photo: Kenneth Meyer.
the Three of them, that tore down from the shelves and stuffed in the bags were the companions of Muhammad of 19 years, Kenneth, at 25 years and 26-year-old Elijah.
– We are primarily gone after the vegetables, meat and bread. Anything that saturates, says the 25-year-old Kenneth.
– And something that tastes good. Even if one is homeless, one can well appreciate proper food with good taste, says Kenneth.
– Even if one is homeless, one can well appreciate proper food with good taste, says Kenneth. Photo: Kenneth Meyer.
The three friends are the homeless, but ‘living’ together in a hostel in Nørrebro in Copenhagen, and therefore makes the two bags of food to them each, a huge difference.
– I actually have food for the rest of the year now, says the 19-year-old Mohammed.
– Must then make a good dinner tonight?
– We’ll get christmas dinner at the pousada in the evening. So we do not need to take the hole in it before tomorrow.
Although there are continuously getting new products on shelves and in display counters, had to staff two times to close the store down to get filled all the shelves up again. In particular, milk products and the meat disappeared quickly. Photo: Kenneth Meyer.
