29.10.24. 6pm IST
Stopping of Food wastage is something beneficial to country as it will help us reduce our Global hunger index as well as reduce our wet waste and the hungry & the poorest of the poor get food on their plate.
Recently October 2024 , India was placed at 105 out of 127 countries at the Global Hunger Index.
Our country annually throws our 70 million tonnes of food every year .
☆ It's 70000000000 kgs ( 7 with 10 zeroes ).
Did you see or hear anyone raising this issue why Global Hunger Index is so high or why our food wastage annually is increasing ?
Just shouting about garbage increasing leads us to no where.
But I have a plan to lead our country to somewhere which will solve so many issues.
So what's the easiest and quickest way to reduce out Global Hunger Index ?
Food Banks is the answer.
In Goa we are a registered food bank with the FSSAI dept and on a daily basis we have been collecting hundreds of kilograms of food for the last 7 years.
♡♡♡ Thanks to Factories & boilers dept, Government of Goa, under the Secretary Sir Sanjit Rodrigues IAS & Chief Inspectorate of Factories and Boilers Sir Anant Pangam who put a program recently, where we contacted 9 factories in Verna Industrial Estate to accept their extra cooked canteen food and from April 24 to Sept 24 ,
& we collected 34 tonnes or 34000 kgs of food which otherwise would have reached the dumps.
Overall for April 24 to Sept 24 we collected close to 39 tonnes or 39000 kgs of good Cooked extra food.
On an average Goa is throwing out daily 10000 kgs to 12000 kgs of cooked food only from all different types of sectors.
And we are only collecting 400 kgs to 500 kgs daily from one sector ie Factories.
Our 1st target ie Factories & canteen contractors at all Industrial Estates in Goa.
Industrial Estates which employ 500 employees and above are daily wasting 30 kgs to 40 kgs of good extra canteen food in all industrial Estates across Goa.
We have a running and well establish model of collecting extra cooked food from factories and feeding the poor.
Now understand in 6 months , 39000 kgs of food which was surely going to the dumps was stopped and given away to the poor in Goa.
Verna Industrial Estate itself is daily throwing out 2000 kgs to 3000 kgs alone from 70 odd big factories in this area.
Then there are other Industrial Estates in Goa.
Hon CM of Goa and the Minister incharge of Waste management of Goa if really interested in reducing the wet waste in Goa should implement our model which is tried and tested and working perfectly well.
This model can also be used across India.
Last many years our Global hunger index is above 100 and below 110.
Malnutrition is very high in our states which one can easily find details online.
Why should poor sleep hungry when so much of food including cooked meals, vegetables, fruits , grains, packaged food etc is just thrown out ?
Garbage plants don't run free .
Taxpayers money is used to run these garbage plants.
Today we have highlighted the issues at a public awareness meet at Azad Maidan Panjim.
We are not blaming anyone but it's a call both to the Factories at all industrial Estates and our Goa Government to work with us as a registered Food bank to feed the hungry, reduce wet waste as well as bring down our Global hunger index.
Most factories pay to dispose their:
》Bio medical waste ,
》Hazzard waste,
》Chemical waste .
But when it comes to the extra cooked canteen food which remains after each meal in the factory they give it back to their canteen contractor who might be or surely will be throwing out into the garbage dumps.
How sad and disappointing to Mother Earth.
I travel and visit many factories in Goa and see many big big statements about VISION & DREAMS of each owner of these factories are put up in the reception area.
But in reality non of these factories through their managers had a slight clue or idea about:
◇ 1. How much cooked food which is already paid for by the company to the canteen contractor was actually wasted.
◇ 2. Exactly what was the canteen contractor doing with this extra canteen food that he took back from the canteen cafeteria.
◇ 3. Where was this food being disposed.
It's more like ” in my factory everything is spik and span, clean “.
” but outside my factory why I am bothered “.
That's what irritated me and I have decided to do my little part of saving food from going to the dumps even though I don't generate wet waste and I too can say what most factory managers and top level management say ” why am I bothered where the good Cooked food goes once it leaves my factory”.
Last if all stake holders work togther in this line of discussion we togther can achieve alot across India starting from :
reducing our Global hunger index
reducing our wet waste
reducing malnutrition
We @ Food Bank Sangolda are ready.
For those working in factories & canteen contractors ae you also interested and ready?
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God bless you all
Donald Fernandes
8380097564 / 7020314848
