The Bread Run programme aims to feed the needy with safe-for-consumption bread that would otherwise have been thrown away.
Food from the Heart has more than 100 Bread Run partners, which largely include bakeries and hotels, scattered throughout Singapore. After serving its commercial time on the shelves, excess bread is collected, packed for pick up and donated to our cause instead of being disposed.
Our bread runs are completed by our volunteers (Bread Runners) every day of the year, be it rain or shine. Each Bread Runner is assigned a route that comprises the pick-up of bread from our Bread Run partners and the drop-off of bread at our bread distribution points.
The bread is received at our distribution points, where community partners work to give the bread out to individual beneficiaries. The bread is typically consumed during breakfast and tea break at welfare homes or re-packed into smaller denominations and given out as weekly rations to individual families.
With more than 800 regular routes and 14,819 bread runs in a year, we need your support.
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