Emirates Food launches the “One Million Meals of Surplus Food” campaign and joins the efforts of the “Billion Meals” initiative
Mohammed bin Rashid: Hind is a companion and friend in the path of goodness
The campaign “One Million Meals from Surplus Food” aims to provide 33,000 meals every day from surplus food during Ramadan.
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His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, said that the consort of His Highness, Her Highness Sheikha Hind bint Maktoum bin Juma Al Maktoum, Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Emirates Food Bank Foundation, launched a new initiative in the food bank to save one million meals From surplus food and distributed it to the needy in the blessed month of Ramadan, His Highness said that Her Highness Sheikha Hind bint Maktoum is a "companion and friend in the path of goodness", noting the achievements of Her Highness' initiative to preserve surplus food and distribute it to the needy during Ramadan.
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, on his Twitter page yesterday, said, "Sheikha Hind bint Maktoum launched an initiative today at the Food Bank, which she chairs, to save one million meals from surplus food and distribute them to the needy during Ramadan, in cooperation with 200 hotels and food establishments. .
37 million beneficiaries of the food bank since its inception.. Hind is a role model.. Hind is good and giving.. Hind is a companion and friend in the path of goodness.
In addition, the Emirates Food Bank announced the launch of the "One Million Meals of Surplus Food" campaign, which aims to provide food support to those who need it, and announced the campaign's joining the "Billion Meals" initiative launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, to provide food support to the poor and needy in 50 countries.
The wife of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Her Highness Sheikha Hind bint Maktoum bin Juma Al Maktoum, Supreme President of the Emirates Food Bank Corporation, said: "More than 37 million beneficiaries of the food bank since its inception locally and globally, and we aim to expand the bank's business."
Her Highness added: "The Food Bank is one of the many humanitarian initiatives of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and the role of the bank is to consolidate the value of feeding food and preserving grace in our country."
Her Highness stressed that "the food surplus is enough to feed many, and the Ramadan initiative is part of the billion campaign launched by Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum."
The "One Million Meals of Surplus Food" campaign, organized by the Emirates Food Bank, joins the efforts of the "Billion Meals" initiative, the largest in the region to provide food support to the poor and needy in 50 countries.
The "One Million Meals of Surplus Food" campaign aims to provide 33,000 meals every day from surplus food during the month of Ramadan, in cooperation with nearly 200 strategic partners from hotels, food establishments, supermarkets, vegetable and fruit markets, central kitchens and charities in the country.
The “One Million Meals of Surplus Food” campaign cooperates with more than 55 hotels, 65 food establishments, 35 supermarkets, vegetable and fruit markets, 13 charities, and 10 central kitchens, with more than 150 volunteers participating in its direct operations.
The campaign also provides an innovative solution to convert food waste that is not fit for consumption after sorting into organic fertilizer and biofuel from processed cooking oils, in cooperation with the startup company “Relube”, which specializes in circular economy applications, recycling and converting surplus food into organic compost to end food waste.
Daoud Al-Hajri, Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Emirates Food Bank, said: “The campaign of one million meals of surplus food organized by the Emirates Food Bank joined the initiative of the billion meals launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. New impetus to achieve, under the guidance of the consort of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Her Highness Sheikha Hind bint Maktoum bin Juma Al Maktoum, Supreme Chairwoman of the Emirates Food Bank Foundation, to provide more than 33,000 meals per day throughout the holy month of Ramadan.
He added: "We are cooperating with the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives to achieve the humanitarian goals of the Billion Meals Initiative by providing food support to the needy and the poor.
We are also organizing, in the context of the One Million Meals of Surplus Food campaign, four targeted sub-initiatives that support achieving a food safety net to help the needy.”
The “Food Surplus” campaign includes four sub-initiatives, namely “Kitchens of Goodness”, collecting surplus food prepared and fit for consumption from breakfast buffets, the Ramadan basket for fruits and vegetables, and Ramadan Meer.
The Conscious Kitchens initiative focuses on benefiting from surplus food in cooperative societies, supermarkets and retail stores.
It also cooperates with a number of central kitchens.
The working model of this sub-initiative is based on assembling the components required to prepare specific meals after they are filled and delivered by the initiative’s partners to the Emirates Food Bank’s warehouse, which in turn sends them to the central kitchen, where the meals are prepared and then distributed to needy families and individual workers.
As for the initiative to collect surplus food prepared and fit for consumption from breakfast buffets, it cooperates with hotels according to the principle of “preserving grace” to ensure that fresh food prepared by hotel chefs is not wasted and has not been used, so that it is packaged within meals that are kept in a safe and healthy way to preserve its nutritional components. , and then deliver it to the beneficiaries in cooperation with the Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department.
This initiative also provides a qualitative and innovative solution to food waste that is not fit for consumption and transforms it, after being processed by the emerging fertilizer and recycling company “Relube”, into biofuel from processed cooking oils and organic fertilizer that is useful in fertilizing green spaces and crops.
According to Relube's statistics, an excess of one million meals can cover 1.25 million square feet of agricultural land with organic fertilizers, spare landfills the equivalent of 625,000 kilograms of waste, and provide 160,000 liters of biofuel.
The Ramadan Meer initiative collects basic foodstuffs from cooperative societies, supermarkets and retail stores to the Emirates Food Bank’s warehouses and then arranges them in baskets containing the basic foodstuffs required to prepare meals and then distributes them to the beneficiaries. The Ramadan basket initiative for fruits and vegetables specializes in preparing baskets Its components include vegetables and fruits, in cooperation with the partners of the “One Million Meals of Surplus Food” campaign, and then distributed to needy individuals and families.
Food waste around the world
Global figures and statistics indicate that 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted annually, while the total value of this food waste is one trillion dollars, while disposal of surplus food costs about 410 billion dollars annually, while the indirect repercussions of this crisis are the depletion of more water resources and agricultural lands. labor and polluting the climate with emissions, while a quarter of the food wasted annually can feed more than 870 million people
Hind bint Maktoum:
• «More than 37 million beneficiaries of the food bank since its establishment locally and globally, and we aim to expand the bank's business».
• “Food surpluses are enough to feed many, and the Ramadan initiative is part of the billion campaign launched by Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.”
• “One Million Meals from Surplus Food” is cooperating with 55 hotels, 65 food establishments, 35 supermarkets, vegetable and fruit markets, 13 charities, and 10 central kitchens.
• The campaign provides an innovative solution to convert food waste that is not fit for consumption into organic fertilizer and biofuel.
• 200 strategic partners in the country are cooperating with the "One Million Meals of Surplus Food Campaign".
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