The Not-For-Profit Organisation she founded has prevented 11 million kilograms of surplus, good food from ending up in landfill and delivered over 36 million meals to more than 680 welfare groups across Australia in the past decade. If you think those stats are impressive, wait till you meet the woman behind them – Ronni Kahn, CEO OzHarvest and Telstra Business Woman Award finalist in 2012.
This inspirational woman is passionate about making a change to people’s lives. If she’s not making sure they have good food, she’s motivating them to change how they think – about life, the way they prevent waste and most importantly how they can help others.
She believes social enterprise is about more than making profits, it’s working for a purpose; that purpose could bring benefit to young women in Africa; young people in Nepal; or closer to home all the people who are helped by Ronni’s food rescue charity.
So, how can we help?
OzHarvest have partnered with the United Nations, embracing #thinkeatsave to fight food waste.. Starting 4 June Ronni wants 10,000 pledges to commit to shifting and changing their behaviour in terms of food wastage – in dollars, that’s between $8-$10 BILLION which will be saved.
Want to know more about OzHarvest and #thinkeatsave? If you’d like to pledge that you will help reduce the amount of food wasted each and every day and commit your support go to ozharvest.org.
Several countries around the world, including the UK and France, have recently legislated to reduce food waste by making it compulsory for supermarkets to donate surplus food to organisations and changed food labelling laws. Now, it’s time Australians took action as well.
In which ways will you commit to reducing food waste (and therefore save on landfill at the same time)?
