Brussels taxis distribute food aid to people in need

The Brussels Solidarity Action Reaction (SBAR) organisation set up taxis to distribute food parcels to families in difficulty as well as meals and blankets to the homeless in the Brussels-Capital region, Abdelkarim Dari, president of the SBAR and Elite Taxi Belgium associations, announced this week.It was originally a citizens’ initiative that began at the beginning of the first coronavirus shutdown in March. The Brussels Youth Association made its premises in Place Verboekhoven in Schaerbeek available to volunteers from where they provided about 100 hot daily meals during the early stages of the first coronavirus wave and climbed to a maxim…