It’s 40 years old, but New York’s City Harvest food program that Hollywood actor Harrison Ford endorses continued through the pandemic lockdown to do what it started off doing – delivering food to people who go hungry every night.
What City Harvest does is simply collect food wasted by hotels, restaurants, food stores and related businesses and deliver it in refrigerated vans every night to millions of New Yorkers who don’t make enough to live on.
It started off in 1982 with few volunteers going around in their cars requesting restaurateurs not to throw away wasted food but give it to them to feed hundreds of shelter projects in NY’s five boroughs. It calls itself a food rescue organisation.
Today, City Harvest has a fleet of refrigerated trucks and celebrity influencers like Harrison Ford helping to deliver its promise of “One Day, One Meal, One New Yorker at a Time”. Restaurateurs call a Hunger Hotline to take their excess food.
The food goes to the homeless, sick and elderly, and families struggling to put a meal on the table. What a lovely idea! Restaurateurs, hoteliers and non-politicians ready to start an Indian chapter in Mumbai – home to the homeless and hungry?
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