The world’s most vulnerable people are in desperate need of food and protection from COVID-19. WFP has been on the front lines fighting hunger, providing lifesaving meals to nearly 90 million of the world’s most vulnerable people in more than 80 countries each year. $75 can provide a family with a WFP emergency box — which contains enough food for an entire month.

KNOW Food Waste (KFW) is a student organization at Ohio State working towards reducing, repurposing and educating about food waste on campus. We have started a fundraiser to help the World Food Programme. For every $25 raised, KNOW Food Waste will post a “Zero Waste Tip” on our Instagram account to help promote sustainability.

Katie Williamson and Aishwarya Badiger, two of the founding members of our student organization Know Food Waste, recently spoke about food waste and how to minimize it on a podcast episode with For Good Measure. Listen along to learn some shocking statistics about food waste, their environmental implications and some tips to minimize waste in your own households!

KNOW Food waste came up with the idea of organizing food drives right before break times to give people an outlet to donate any excess food they might have. We urged people to clean out their refrigerators and pantries before they left for Fall/Winter break and donate the excess to our food drive. We were pleasantly surprised to receive 20 lbs and 118 lbs from our Fall break and Winter break food drives respectively! All this food was donated to NSI (Neighborhood Services Inc.) food pantry.