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Zomato and Feeding India to join hands to battle food wastage & hunger
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Wednesday, 06 February, 2019, 16 : 00 PM [IST]
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Our Bureau, Bengaluru
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Food delivery app Zomato and Feeding India, an award-winning non-profit organisation working towards solving the challenges of food wastage, hunger and malnutrition, will together target every source of food wastage, including farms, restaurants, hotels, supermarkets, corporates and events.
The Zomato network will plug into Feeding India’s already existing models that focus on sustainably feeding the many who sleep hungry every night. The latter is now a part of the Zomato family.
After witnessing the magnitude of food wastage at a wedding, Ankit Kawatra quit his job and founded Feeding India along with Srishti Jain in 2014.
Since then, the team, with its five sustainable programmes, has been working towards picking up excess food and redistributing it to people across hunger spots in over 65 cities in India. Till date, Feeding India has served 20 million meals through its 12 food recovery vans, 50-plus community fridges and network of 8,500-plus volunteers.
“We have so far, taken environmental issues head-on with non-plastic initiatives like preventing the consumption of single-use plastic cutlery and promoting biodegradable packaging for food delivery,” said Deepinder Goyal, founder and chief executive officer, Zomato.
“With Feeding India, we will take this battle a notch higher by helping them build a system where excess food is directed to those in need. As a start, our aim is to activate the restaurants on our platform into the Feeding India network and help them use technology to scale their volunteer operations,” he added.
“Our objective is to end hunger and food wastage not just in India, but globally. With Zomato, we see this collaboration as a pivotal step against food insecurity. Restaurants can play a transformational role in powering hunger-free cities,” said Kawatra.
The NGO does not only donates excess food from various sources including events, airports, weddings, restaurants, corporates, etc., that would otherwise go to landfills, but also cooks fresh food through innovative kitchen-models to support people, especially women and children, with limited access to food and nutrition.
Zomato’s initiatives like HyperPure and Hygiene Ratings are focussed on the quality of food and transparency. Along with biodegradable packaging and pro-environment messaging, it will actively engages in behaviour change.
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