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A pick-up soup in Amsterdam
For this year’s World Disco Soup Day SFYN Amsterdam teamed up with Buurtbuik, an association of “food waste heroes” who regularly rescue food at local supermarkets, stores and restaurants and share it with their neighbours. The event was hosted on the 24th of April in the Buurbuik location in the Oud-Zuid of Amsterdam. So WDSD was the first event they hosted there and a promotional event at the same time for their opening! The 6 SFYN Amsterdam volunteers together with chef Andreas prepared served about 60 meals which were picked up for free in different time slots. They also organized a 'free food market' with the surplus food collected that did not make it in the soup: people could fill their bags and take everything that was left home.
“There was one lady who just passed by curious of what we were doing. We handed her a bowl of soup and she came back for more telling us that she had never ever tasted such a good soup before! Compliments to the chef!” Jara Snippe, SFYN Amsterdam.
An anti-waste festival for children in Uganda
In Uganda the SFYN Network celebrated WDSD at the Nabbaale Junior School in Mukono with about 20 participants. The Disco Soup campaign focused on sensibilizing youth about food waste and it followed up with a 3 days camp happening from the 28th to the 30th of May 2020 involving 50 youth.
Disco Soup party in Haifa
In Haifa, Israel, World Disco Soup Day was organized by Robin Food NGO and it was celebrated in two ways. On the 23rd of April, rescued food was offered to the participants of a local cooking challenge, who had to come up with their best recipes. The following day, on World Disco Soup Day, a big party was organized with about 100 guests and 15 volunteers during which the 100kg of rescued food was transformed into delicious meals by chef Roy Avraham. The volunteers also organized a cooking workshop of “rescued salad” which was live streamed for the digital community. The video can be found on the World Disco Soup Day Facebook page.
Serving “ollas solidarias” for people in need
The Slow Food community in Chia, Colombia turned food wastage into delicious solidarity pots (ollas solidarias) for the communities in need. In collaboration with the association Familia Kabod they organized a three-day long activity in which 30 volunteers rescued 204kg of fruits and vegetables. Those were turned into soups, salads, fruit juices which were donated to the people of the community in need connected to the foundation “Cambio y Libertad”. About 70 meals were served during a fun-and-save event accompanied by live and Dj music. Watch the video of the event!
University students against food waste in Hanoi, Vietnam
In Hanoi the quarantine and social distancing times are getting back to normality, so our volunteers decided to organize a networking event for the students of the Faculty of environment and food at the National University of Hanoi. The topic of course was zero waste and delicious plates of surplus vegetables rescued from local farms were prepared by young chefs. The meals were accompanied by music, dances and fun quizzes.
SFYN Kenya on Air
On the occasion of World Disco Soup Day, SFYN Kenya released a special episode on the local Radio Yetu, with a focus on food waste reduction. The episode, in Kiswahili, can be found on their Facebook Page. In addition to that, the local network in Nakuru organized an offline Disco Soup with rescued veggies and a lot of fun and dances.
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