Asociacion de Bancos de Alimentos de Colombia

The National Network of Food Banks of Colombia (ABACO) is a non-profit organization, which represents and articulates the 24 Food Banks in the country, located in: San Andres Archipelago, La Guajira, Magdalena, Cesar, Atlántico, Bolivar, Cordoba, Sucre, Antioquia, Risaralda, Quindio, Caldas, Valle del Cauca, Nariño, Tolima, Huila, Cundinamarca, Meta, Santander, and Norte de Santander.

ABACO seeks to establish strategic alliances with public and private sector and other NGOs to strengthen Food Bank programs and projects aimed at comprehensively improving the quality of life and food and nutritional security of vulnerable and impoverished populations.

Aligned with SDG 2: Zero Hunger and 12: Responsible production and consumption, ABACO, frames its higher purpose in the following main lines of work:
• Improve food and nutritional security of the population in vulnerable situations.
• Develop programs and projects with an emphasis on child nutrition (prevention of deaths from malnutrition, treatment of acute malnutrition and prevention of chronic malnutrition).
• Guide activities to reduce food losses and waste in all sectors of the value chain: agriculture, industry, retail, wholesale and HORECA (hotels, restaurants, and casinos).
• Enable the strengthening of the integral capacities of Food Banks and their beneficiaries.