Programme: Local Development, Poverty Reduction and Enhanced Inclusion of Vulnerable Groups

The project proposal is aimed at providing support to overcome the main identified deprivations of food and basic materials to ensure normal living conditions for people who live in extreme poverty, experience severe material deprivation and live in social isolation in the territory of the municipality of Zavet. The current project will build on the implemented activities and the achieved results of the successfully implemented activities under the "Public Canteens" target program under the "Social Protection" fund.A hot lunch will be provided to persons in daily need of support who live in extreme poverty and severe material deprivation. As appropriate, the menus will be prepared based on the Collection of recipes for public catering establishments, in which the quantities of the products used are also indicated, in order to guarantee the quality of the prepared food. When preparing a hot lunch, the opinion and feedback from the final recipients of the aid will be respected. Accompanying measures will be indicatively expressed in individual and group counseling and assistance to end users, according to their individual needs for:
- the possibilities of using other social services provided on the territory of the municipality;
- the use of administrative municipal services, to support access to health and educational services, to manage the family budget, for a healthy and balanced diet.
The provision of the hot lunch will be carried out by the municipal unit of Domestic Social Patronage, which has the appropriate base, human resources and equipment for food preparation, as well as the necessary specialized vehicles. Food products will be purchased from a supplier selected after a procedure for awarding the supply of food products in accordance with the Law on Public Procurement.