Students Recover One Million Pounds of Food for Hungry Americans

Students Recover One Million Pounds of Food for Hungry Americans

Many of us are planning, preparing and anticipating our Thanksgiving meal later this week. It is a time to focus on bounty. However, the Food Recovery Network — the country’s largest student movement against food waste and hunger — recently reached a major milestone in its short four-year existence: the recovery of its one-millionth pound of food. Since 2011, students at more than 160 colleges and universities across the country have worked with campus dining services and local restaurants to pick up surplus prepared food and deliver it to hunger-fighting agencies in their communities. FRN Member Support Fellow Hannah Cather shares more details about how students are making a difference on college campuses around the country.
Cather: “Students who are interested work with us to see what would work best plan for their campus and community. Whether that is going into an all-you-can-eat buffet cafeteria and taking left-over macaroni and cheese or maybe getting getting pre-packaged sandwiches from a shop on campus. Depending on the food they have access to donating: they will either repackage it and take it to a church or a food kitchen that can then use the ingredients to make another meal. We see rice and salad being used a lot of times by the community members by taking those ingredients and making meals for hungry people in their communities.”

 

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