Madrid's co-operative food bank
Spain’s economy has been in and out of recession since a property bubble burst six years ago, sending unemployment soaring to record highs.
To help those hit by hard times, families and activists from the 15M indignant movement founded a food bank in the Madrid neighbourhood of Tetuan. But unlike charity groups that simply hand out donations, this bank asks recipients to collaborate by helping to collect and distribute food.
The skyscrapers of the Four Towers business district rise up in background, behind a man searching for food in a garbage container in Tetuan.
Majid Mnissar does his morning prayers in the small apartment that he, his wife and three children share with his parents-in-law.
Mnissar’s seven-year-old son Elias Mnissar Trigo plays with a Real Madrid scarf in the shared, two-bedroom apartment.
Mnissar’s wife Toni Trigo kisses their son Elias good-bye after taking him to school.
Trigo picks up a donation for the Tetuan food bank from a supermarket shopper as a fellow food bank recipient looks on.
Julio Ortiz, who is part of the food bank, sorts items during a donation pick-up outside a supermarket.
Majid Mnissar (left), Mostafa Kamal and another food bank recipient carry a shopping cart full of donated items to the food bank storage room.
Shopping carts, marked with numbers to identify the families that own them, are lined up before being filled with donated food.
A man waits to get his portion of items from the food bank.
Klever, a recipient of the food bank, gives out donated bread.
Trigo's son Elias tells her he does not like the paella that she made with rice from the food bank.
Trigo offers her husband dinner as Elias looks on.
