GENEVA / REFETTORIO
13,815
FREE MEALS
Served at Refettorio Geneva, 1 January–19 October 2026. Each meal corresponds to one beneficiary served during that meal, not a unique person across the year.
REFETTORIO GENEVA ↗04 / IMPACT & TRANSPARENCY — MATER FONDAZIONE
COUNT
WHAT
MATTERS.
Behind every figure is a person, a team or a decision. We document what we can, explain what each number means and distinguish activity from lasting change.
EXPLORE THE FIGURES ↘
REAL PEOPLE. REAL WORK. ACCOUNTABLE RESULTS.
01 / THE PRINCIPLE
NUMBERS ARE
NOT THE
WHOLE STORY.
A meal can alleviate hunger. A shared table can create belonging. Emergency kitchens can reinforce a community. A constitutional guarantee creates obligations.
Those contributions are different. They deserve their own definitions, periods and evidence — not one impressive-sounding but misleading combined total.
02 / DOCUMENTED OPERATIONAL ACTIVITY
2026 INTERIM SNAPSHOT · TO 19 OCTOBER
WHAT WE
HAVE DONE.
LEBANON / EMERGENCY RESPONSE
≈88,000
EMERGENCY MEALS
Approximate meals prepared and distributed through Rapid Relief Kitchen and local partners, 18 April–30 September 2026. Partner-reported estimate, not an audited total.
RAPID RELIEF KITCHEN ↗GENEVA / COMMUNITY
273
VOLUNTEERS
People mobilised during 2026 through the reporting date. Headcount rather than number of shifts or hours.
VOLUNTEER WITH MATER ↗GENEVA / PARTICIPATION
35
PARTICIPANTS
Beneficiaries, volunteers, team members and partners who joined the first États généraux du Refettorio on 8 October 2026.
THE REFETTORIO JOURNAL ↗Source: MATER 2026 interim operational monitoring through 19 October. The Lebanon total is an estimate provided by an operational partner. Figures are programme-specific, provisional, and not an independent impact evaluation.
03 / REFETTORIO SERVICE TRANSFORMATION
MORE MEALS.
ONE SHARED
TABLE.
Since 1 July 2026, Refettorio Geneva has dedicated both lunch and dinner to free social service. The change is visible in average monthly free meals served.
AVERAGE FREE MEALS PER MONTH · REFETTORIO GENEVA · 2026
JAN–JUNHYBRID MODEL
1,293
JUL–SEPFULL SOCIAL MODEL
1,607
+24.5%REPORTED CHANGE IN MONTHLY AVERAGE
September saw 2,117 free meals — the highest monthly level recorded in 2026 as of the interim report.
The comparison uses six months (January–June) and three months (July–September). Monthly averages adjust for unequal periods. This is a service activity measure, not evidence of long-term food-security outcomes.
04 / PUBLISHED ANNUAL BASELINE
THE YEAR
BEFORE.
13,790FREE REFETTORIO MEALS
300VOLUNTEERS
7,520VOLUNTEER HOURS
10 tSURPLUS FOOD RECOVERED
05 / WHAT THE DATA MEANS
MAKE EVERY
NUMBER
ANSWERABLE.
A MEAL IS A MEAL.
Each free meal counted at Refettorio corresponds to a person served on that occasion, not an individually identified person for the year. Paid lunch and event covers are recorded separately.
ESTIMATES ARE LABELLED.
The Lebanon meal figure comes from local operational partners. It is approximate, covers a defined period, and must not be represented as audited or added to another programme without context.
DATES MATTER.
A full calendar year, a partially completed year, a project deployment and an all-time cumulative indicator describe different realities. We display their reporting windows explicitly.
OUTPUTS ARE NOT OUTCOMES.
Meal volumes and volunteer involvement are measures of activity. Dignity, food security, agency and policy change require qualitative evidence and longer-term evaluation.
06 / REPORTS & FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY
OPEN
THE BOOKS.
COMPLETE ARCHIVE / 2020–2025
Six years of activity reports and financial documents, organised by year so you can follow MATER’s work and accountability from 2020 to 2025.
YEARACTIVITY REPORTFINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY
2025LATEST COMPLETED YEAR
2024ANNUAL REPORTING
2023THE RIGHT TO FOOD VOTE
2022REFETTORIO OPENS
2021EARLY FOUNDATION WORK
2020FIRST REPORTING YEAR
*
Financial documents are presented under their original titles: a financial report for 2020 and audited accounts for 2021–2025.
07 / THE OUTCOMES WE ARE WORKING TOWARD
FROM RELIEF
TO RIGHTS.
Food security is not created by counting plates alone. Participation, democratic governance, public policy and the implementation of the right to food matter too.
The États généraux give beneficiaries a voice in Refettorio's future. ODAG tracks Geneva's right to food through 30 indicators. Neither should be collapsed into a meal count.
08 / TAKE PART
TRANSPARENCY
IS AN INVITATION.
Read the reports. Ask questions. Visit the table. Help us make access to good food a matter of rights rather than privilege.
