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The Food Rescue Program revolves around "rescuing" surplus good quality food that exceeds the needs of consumers for some reasons, such as almost expiration, and over or under product standard by reallocating it from hotels, restaurants, and other food-related businesses to impoverished or underprivileged communities in Thailand.
We aim for food that would otherwise be thrown away and become waste with this program by encouraging our partners in the food business sector to donate their surplus food. We also want to educate them on a better and efficient way to manage surplus food that instead of disposing surplus food into landfills, we give it to the people in need which would be proven much beneficial.
Our operation runs every day by following the pattern of morning surplus food pick-up by our Food Rescue Ambassadors from our partners’ location. During our pick-up period, we weigh all donated edible surplus food to record the measurement to a mobile application for the purpose of calculating the amount of GHG emission. Our program aims to support our food partners to manage their surplus food more efficiently by providing our collected weight data with our monthly report. We put great emphasis on hygiene standards especially during transportation, with our cold-chain trucks and food safety support, our rescued nutritious surplus food is always safe for people to consume.
After we finish collecting surplus food, we then proceed to transport them to different communities with the help of our Community Coordinator and Community Leaders as middlemen who assist in the distribution of goods and assess the outcome of each operation, in which we use their evaluations to shape and develop future campaigns.
We have set our goals of serving 25 million nutritious meals to disadvantaged people by 2025 and supporting the Thai government to reduce half of the food waste by 2030. We continuously cultivate our program to enhance food security and constantly provide support to recipients with an aim that they could become self-reliant in the future.
