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“Outstanding service. They were extremely careful delivering the extra large container into our driveway.” -- A. L. GARNER
Wichita. Merritt said, “we have that food insecurity right here in our hometown yet we're throwing it away.”Merritt is the founder of ICT Food Rescue. It's a volunteer organization that works through an app called Food Rescue US.Volunteers are runners. Much like the Uber app, when businesses have leftover food to be picked up the runners are notified through the app. Merritt said, “you download the app and you go and claim a rescue. All the information [is there] and it tells you where to go, what to say when you walk in the door. Any contact information you might need. And it tells you exactly where you need to take the food too.”Merritt popped in to Reverie to pick up leftovers and is delivering them to It Takes A Village. It’s a nonprofit that help at-risk youth find housing.It is such a blessing to know we are getting healthy food, we are getting good food,” said Terry Atwater, It Takes a Village CEO. “We've been able to reduce our overall food cost right now about 71% because of ICT Food Rescue, so it's huge.”Reverie Roasters is one of seven other businesses that donates its leftover food. Hand said, “it's fantastic that is going to someone who needs it, appreciates it and that we're able to do it.”In the United States 67.58 billion pounds of food is thrown out. That's why businesses like Reverie, even national chains like Starbucks and Panera Bread are stepping up and donating its leftovers.So instead of Reverie’s leftover food filling a dumpster, it's fill the bellies of Wichita’s hungry. Merritt said, “it feels good to actually see that i... (T Food Rescue helping feed the hungry and eliminating food waste)
Austin were not forgetting about small towns affected by the storm.“It’s really comforting to me since my hometown needs some help and my new town is helping out,” Bianchi said. “It’s a natural disaster, and there’s nothing we could’ve done to prevent it. You just have to take baby steps in making it better, and I think that’s what our towns are trying to do.”... (UT The Daily Texan)
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