A process is underway for a foodbank foundation to start operating in Malta, President Marie Louise Coleiro Preca said today. She was speaking during a visit to FareShare in London, which provided 12 million meals a year to 62,000 vulnerable people. The organisation collected food which large supermarkets and food producers would have thrown away and used this food for its means to the homeless and other vulnerable persons. FareShare chief executive Lindsay Boswell said that in a year, the organisation collected more than five tonnes of food that would have been thrown away. It was able to do this through the participation of more than 1,500 volunteers who gave their time to organise stores and distribute the food. The organisation served more than 800 non-governmental organisations who then distributed the food.