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Our Story

Our project started in 2017 when we recognized two devastating challenges in the Kansas City community: Food waste and hunger.

In our area, one person out of every seven is food insecure. Over 108,000 of those experiencing food insecurity in our area are children, and of these children, 42% do not qualify for federal nutrition programs. Hundreds of thousands of our neighbors, coworkers, friends, and family in the area suffer from hunger every day.

At the same time, 40% of ALL food produced in the United States ends up in a landfill – an estimated 65 million tons of food waste per year. This costs our country 165 billion dollars annually while drastically increasing fossil fuel emissions and freshwater consumption. One of our own Enactus members who worked in the UMKC cafeteria noticed the extent of food waste in our own backyard and brought this challenge to the team.

Rather than seeing these challenges as roadblocks, though, we saw them as opportunities. At the intersection of these two needs we used creativity and innovation to craft a solution. We connected with local food vendors, like the UMKC cafeteria, to take safe and nutritious food to local soup kitchens instead of to the landfill.

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