13.7.24. 8pm IST
FOOD BANK SANGOLDA GOA collects 16000 kgs of freshly cooked food costing Rs 24 lacs in the last 3 months from Verna Industrial Estate.
Project supported by : Inspectorate of Factories & boilers dept, Government of Goa.
》Factories donating food : 7 as of date
》Average daily food collected : 250 kgs
》Meals per day fed with this food : 600 meals
》Wastage per day due to spoilage : 50 kgs
》Total fed in the last 3 months = 45000 meals.
》Cost of food collected = Rs 24 lacs @ 150 per kg.
Food collected in the last 3 months from 7 Factories in Verna :
》April 24 = 5 tons
》 May 24 = 5 tons
》June 24 = 6 tons
We sincerely thank the management & owners of the following companies for the food donation last 3 months :
☆ Commscope
☆ Microlabs
☆ IFB
☆ Marksans
☆ Siemens
☆ Lupin
☆ Sanofi
Any factory/ industry having minimum strength of 250 to 400 employees is surely daily wasting 25 to 30 kgs daily of extra cooked factory food
as most factories run their staff canteen through canteen contractors & no canteen contractor will ever cook less to bring to the factory canteen.
For many years I took this concept to various Government departments but all refused to even understand the gravity of the environmental damages done to food wastage.
One beaurecrat Mr Sanjit Rodrigues, IAS, Secretary of Factory & Boilers, Government of Goa understood exactly what I was trying to do.
The Chief Inspector of Factories and Boilers, Government of Goa, Mr Anant Pangam, was kind enough to put this project into reality as he too understood the meaning of hunger & poverty.
And rest is there for you to see in the link.
We are moving this concept out of Goa very soon to states where we run shelter homes.
It's going to be Challenging as no factory Willingly will want to give away extra cooked factory food due to one fright – food poisoning.
For that we have a stamp paper agreement where by any food poisoning issue is the responsibility of the food bank or our NGO.
India is criminally wasting hundreds of tons of good Cooked nutritious food daily and I am waiting when The Hon Prime Minister of India introduces a law to ban food wastage and encourages food banks to feed the poor.
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