No Food Waste
Movement to reduce hunger
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No Food Waste (NFW)[1] is a movement turned NGO started by Padmanaban Gopalan and his friends Dinesh manickam and Sudhakar Mohan to get rid of the problem of hunger.[2] The team of No Food Waste scouts for marriage halls, institutions and homes that might have excess food.[3] The food is collected and then repackaged and distributed to the people in need. On an average, 600 plates of food were being provided daily as reported in 2017.
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| Founded | 16 October 2014 |
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| Founder | Padmanaban Gopalan, Dinesh Manickam and Sudhakar Mohan |
| Founded at | Coimbatore |
| Type | NGO |
| Headquarters | Coimbatore |
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| Website | nofoodwaste |
The movement started in Coimbatore and has now expanded to other districts in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Apart from a hotline, they also developed an app on which anyone who has excess food can log in. The person can send a message which is received by a volunteer of the organization. The volunteer then collects the food after connecting via app.[4][5] The app also identifies hunger spots by crowdsourcing data to analyse the need.[6][7]
Awards and recognition
- Social Entrepreneur Award from ICCI
- National award ‘Rashtriya Swayam Siddh Samman’ from JSPL Foundation and the United Nations Global Compact Network India (UNGCN)[8][9]
- International Visionary Award for 2015 from The Pollination Project of California[10][11][12]
- Presented in Borlaug Dialogue International Symposium[13]
- Government of Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister’s State Youth Award was received by Padmanaban Gopalan for No Food Waste[14][15]
- Commonwealth Youth Award for contributions towards United Nations’s Sustainable Development Goal 02 "Zero Hunger" [16][17][18][19]
- Presented in Science, Technology & Innovation Forum (STI) 2019 by United Nations for No Food Waste by Padmanaban Gopalan[20]
- Padmanaban Gopalan bagged National Youth Award 2019 by Government of India for No Food Waste [21][22][23][24][25]