Food Rescue ASEAN
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Lessening Food Waste
What is Food Rescue ASEAN?
Food Rescue ASEAN is a project started by a Senior Mass Communication student of Silliman University Mac Flerondo in the year 2015. It is a project that has a mission to reduce food wastes by collecting food that is still edible from different establishments for it to be distributed to citizens that are in need.
First of All
What is the difference between Food Waste and Food Loss?
Food Waste
refers to the food that is of good quality that has been sold to consumers that have been discarded or left to spoil or expire.
Food Loss
It refers to the food that is lost, expired, and spilled during the process to reach the final product. Mostly occurs during the processing and manufacturing stage of the product.
Food Rescue ASEAN, a project initiated by Mac Florendo, started in September in the year 2015, launched in the Philippines in the Dumaguete City. The project aims to lessen food wastes and to assist individuals that are in poverty or has low income.
Reduces food wastes by assembling food from different establishments such as markets, business buildings, etc. The accumulated food will be distributed to homeless and low-income individuals to assist them in experiencing a meal at their tables. The volunteers and Mac Florendo himself uses a bicycle, skates, boards, and others as transportation in distributing and collecting the food; this is to promote zero-emission and for environmental protection.
Food Rescue ASEAN is one of the projects that have won in the Young South East Asian Leaders Initiative Seeds for the Future Grants.
YSEALI Seeds for the Future is a small grant competition for young leaders based in Southeast Asia. The competition will support and fund some of the promising projects that have been presented by young leaders to improve their respective communities and country.
Mac Florendo
“Knowing that there are poor families and individuals in the community and food wasted every day, I told myself that Food Rescue ASEAN is really something that Dumaguete would need, same for the rest of the Philippines and ASEAN.”
Mac is a student of Mass Communication at Silliman University. He has been involved in different environmental projects, both locally and internationally. He has a strong interest in environmental issues, photography, and film making. He is presently an active member of Cuernos de Negros Mountaineers Club. His dream is to be a filmmaker to create public awareness using advocacies to the older and younger generations.