The Healthy Meal initiative is one of the main projects within the ESF+ operating grant ‘Food4Inclusion‘. Healthy Meal promotes social inclusion by partnering up with restaurants to provide disadvantaged people with sustainable, healthy and affordable meals.
Current crises are leading many countries to face increasing levels of severe food insecurity. With global poverty on the rise and inequalities exacerbated, particularly by the COVID-19 pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine, vulnerable households with low incomes across Europe are seen as the main victims.
Impoverishment has led to a segment of the population having to forgo non-essential socialising activities, such as a meal at a restaurant.
But above all, many households have found themselves having to change their consumption habits to cope with rising energy prices, falling back on buying cheaper and less healthy food. The mismatch between income and the rising cost of living has brought consequences that will be difficult to reverse in the short term, and the impact on the nutrition of disadvantaged households is one of them.
Today, millions of people have no other choice than buying unhealthy food.
SAFE is here to support them via the Healthy Meal initiative.
Healthy Meal initiative aims to create a network of restaurants and eateries offering healthy and nutritious meals to needy families and persons at an affordable price on a given day of the week/month and to encourage this practice throughout Europe.
The restaurant can donate or provide the meal at a significant discount or ask customers to leave a percentage of the final bill to get a round figure. This is also a way of promoting the initiative and raising public awareness of the need for food inclusion and solidarity, engaging customers to help.
The Healthy Meal initiative has already been lunched in several EU counties, where
1 restaurants and
7 NGOs
are participating.
To date we have helped
0 needy persons
to get healthy and affordable meals.
The families and persons in need have saved directly through this initiative
0 Eur
and are still saving more.
To find out who is participating in the Healthy Meal initiative in each country, click on the relevant flag:
