No Food Waste

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No Food Waste
Founded16 October 2014 (2014-10-16)
Founder Padmanaban Gopalan, Dinesh Manickam and Sudhakar Mohan
Founded at Coimbatore
Type NGO
Headquarters Coimbatore
Location
Website nofoodwaste.org

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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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]

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