SÃO PAULO, Dec. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — On Wednesday (December 3), the Metropolis of São Paulo acquired GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ recognition for having the world’s largest municipal meals safety program, making it the primary metropolis on the planet to be acknowledged on this class. The achievement, which establishes the São Paulo mannequin as a world benchmark, acknowledges the state capital’s everlasting public coverage of dignified and steady entry to meals for the inhabitants. The document was established after a Guinness audit confirmed the distribution of 933.8 metric tons of meals in 24 hours. The Metropolis of São Paulo distributes greater than 3 million meals every day.
The São Paulo State capital distributes greater than 3 million meals every day and positive aspects worldwide recognition
São Paulo Mayor, Ricardo Nunes, acquired the Guinness certificates from the establishment’s adjudicator, Camila Borenstain, who attended the ceremony in Paraisópolis, a low-income neighborhood within the southern a part of the town. Meals safety is taken into account a basic human proper by the World Well being Group.
The meals safety community managed by the Metropolis consists of ready-made meals, recent produce, and staple meals baskets. For official verification of the document, a historic mobilization befell on the so-called “Meals Safety D Day”, November 25, which concerned greater than 5,600 polling websites throughout the town and 1,500 individuals on the streets.
Upon receiving the certificates from the Guinness World Information’ official consultant, Mayor Ricardo Nunes emphasised that this second illustrates how a lot São Paulo is a metropolis of solidarity, hospitality, and look after its inhabitants. “This achievement means rather a lot. Solely those that have skilled starvation know what I’m speaking about; solely those that have seen somebody going hungry perceive the significance of a strong meals program”, he stated.
“As we speak, December 3, it’s an honor to judge this document achieved by the town of São Paulo: the biggest municipal public meals safety program”, stated Guinness adjudicator Camila Borenstain.
Essential applications
The primary applications thought-about within the achievement embody the one which distributes faculty meals, which give as much as 5 meals a day to greater than 1 million college students within the municipal faculty system. Within the early childhood phase, 325,000 youngsters in early childhood schooling obtain milk at house each month.
For instantly preventing social vulnerability, the Metropolis of São Paulo distributes a complete of 421,000 staple meals baskets monthly by the Cestas Básicas (Staple Meals Baskets) and Cidade Solidária (Solidary Metropolis) applications.
The community additionally consists of Bom Prato Paulistano (Good São Paulo Meals), with 7,000 inexpensive meals per day, along with Rede Cozinha Escola (Faculty Kitchen Community), which delivers 26,000 meals per day and affords skilled coaching, and Rede Cozinha Cidadã (Citizen Kitchen Community), which delivers 15,000 meals per day within the metropolis’s outskirts.
These actions are complemented by Armazéns Solidários (Solidary Warehouses), which provide reductions of as much as 50% on important meals gadgets for these registered with the CadÚnico program, and Banco de Alimentos (Meals Financial institution), which donates 55 metric tons of merchandise monthly to social establishments.
