A mission to battle food wastage and hunger by Zomato

After observing food being wasted in a wedding, Ankit Kawatra departs from his job and founded Feeding India along with Srishti Jain in the year 2014. Now, a different initiative sees Feeding India join hands with Zomato in an exercise towards settling the challenges of food wastage, malnutrition , and hunger. Primarily, Feeding India already owns five sustainable programmes that have been helping towards picking up surplus food and redistributing it to needy people across hunger spots in over 65 cities in India. Talking about the two joining hands, Deepinder Goyal, Founder & CEO, Zomato, said, “We have so far, taken environmental issues head-on with non-plastic initiatives like preventing the consumption of single-use plastic cutlery and promoting biodegradable packaging for food delivery.” He added, “As we welcome Feeding India into the Zomato family, we will take this battle a notch higher by helping them build a system where excess food is directed to those in ...