National Federation of Food Banks. The first Association for the collection and distribution of Food was established in 2016 in Bucharest to serve the society an instrument by which food and personal hygiene products within the period of validity, as well as those which are no longer needed by the holders, but which are good for use, be collected, properly stored and then redistributed free of charge to organizations providing services to the disadvantaged. The Food Bank currently operates in 10 cities: Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Roman, Brasov, Oradea, Timisoara, Constanta, Galati, Craiova and Sibiu.