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our solution |
Through a social entrepreneurship program the founders of TFA created a venture project to combat food waste and hunger in the D.C. area. This project involves using underutilized school cafeterias to make meals for the homeless community in D.C. and surrounding areas. The program will take donated food from local businesses, such as Starbucks, Chipotle, Giant, and Safeway, and gather it in school cafeterias where it will be made into prepared meals by student volunteers. Both participating high schools require community service hours to graduate and this venture will provide involved students with accessible community service hours after school. After the students transform the donated food into healthy prepared meals, they will distribute the meals through either local churches and synagogues or through D.C. Central Kitchen’s existing distribution network. This solution to the issue of hunger in D.C. is unique because it benefits multiple aspects of the community. On a smaller scale, the program impacts the daily lives of the students involved in the program by raising their awareness about sustainable eating habits and developing their leadership skills so they can make a difference in their community. On a larger scale, this venture feeds the hungry in the community and helps to eliminates food waste.
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To feed the hungry in the DC area, eliminate local food waste, and provide high school students with leadership opportunities to raise their awareness about sustainable food habits.
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Local businesses and schools in the DC area will use their extra food to help others, so that no one in our DC community goes hungry. |
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Teen Food Action received a $500 mini grant from The Awesome Foundation DC
www.awesomefoundation.org/en/chapters/dc |