Social worker Sabine Werth saw this waste and started the Berliner Tafel (able) organization in 1993, in order to give the food to those who needed it. The problem was collecting all the food, which also included "remains" from parties and buffets, and distributing it to needy men, women, and children. Sabine organized groups of with cars and vans to do this work. At first, the Berliner Tafel provided food only for homeless people, but nowadays in need can pick up a bag of groceries for a low price--the symbolic price of one euro. Today, Berliner Tafel feeds up to 15,000 needy people a day, and there are approximately 800 food banks all over Germany