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More than a third of the families requesting the children's menu prepared by catering companies for the Community of Madrid, around 3,200, do not go to pick it up, while another 5,000 families do. This is shown by the data offered today by the Ministry of Education, which claims to be unaware of why there are so many families who do not go to these menus, who are distributed to other vulnerable families through NGOs and municipalities.

It should be remembered that since mid-May the Community of Madrid recovered restoration companies specialized in infant feeding to provide the menus to the beneficiaries of the dining room scholarships after the criticism received by the opposition, Ampas and the central Executive himself regarding the distribution of food that was agreed "urgently" with the fast food chains Telepizza, Rodilla and Viena Chaplains.

For this new distribution of food, which included fruits, vegetables, fish and vegetables, the Community of Madrid obtained help from a state fund.

From the Ministry of Education, they affirm that they have "done everything possible" to facilitate the distribution of the new 8,000 menus, from putting "various distribution points to reducing the delivery days of the five weekly meals to two to avoid displacement."

"Even," says a spokesman for the Ministry, "some family who have indicated that they considered the distribution point somewhat remote from their home, are sent to them via Civil Protection." For this reason, they specify from the Area, they do not know why 3,000 families do not come to them.

In any case, they point out from Education, "food is not being wasted", since from the first moment in which it was found that they did not go for the menus, "they were given to the social services of the municipalities as well as those people who needed it " , specifically through different aid networks, including the Madrina Foundation, the Tribu Foundation, the San Fernando Social Service, the Triangle Foundation, the Encuentro Project, Caritas, Our Lady of Valvanera Parish, the Municipal Board of the Madrid City Council , neighborhood associations, school directors and heads of Study, Asociación Basida or Ampas.

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