Programme: Science and Education for Smart Growth

The provision of a hot lunch is of great help, because on the one hand the poorest and most vulnerable people, including children, will continue to receive a "hot lunch" to largely cope with their material deprivation. The aim is to provide healthy, varied and nutritious hot food for lunch to people who are unable to provide it themselves or with the help of their relatives. In this way, it will contribute to alleviating and reducing poverty, as well as overcoming social exclusion.
The municipality of Belene aims to open the "hot lunch" service for 80 users from vulnerable groups, for 36 months on working days. Individuals must meet the following criteria:
 1. Individuals and families with no income or with low income, elderly families of pensioners and pensioners living alone who have low incomes, cannot support themselves with these incomes and their property and do not receive support from their relatives;
2. Persons subject to social assistance, including from the circle of persons under Art. 4, para. 1 of the Ordinance, for which a need for daily additional support has been established;
3. Persons with low incomes who, due to available disabilities or health limitations, have difficulty or impossible self-care, including single persons with permanent disabilities with low personal income from a pension, for whom there is no suitable candidate for an assistant under the personal assistance mechanism;
4. Persons who, due to accidental circumstances, are in a difficult and vulnerable situation and for whom a need for this type of assistance has been established;
5. Persons from vulnerable groups - citizens of third countries, in the sense of § 1, item 17 of the additional provisions of the Act on Asylum and Refugees.