Sharing Food, Reducing Waste

People needed to know how much food they should buy or cook every day. Don't damage the environment through our plates.

KOMPAS/ALBERTUS KRISNA

An FOI volunteer and PAUD Mawar Sandi teacher in Manggarai, Indri (54) is preparing food from excess food in one of the classes that was turned into a kitchen on Thursday (28/04/2022)..

On Thursday afternoon (28/4/2022), a classroom at Mawar Sandi PAUD preschool in Manggarai, South Jakarta, was transformed into a kitchen. The rows of small tables held bottles of sauce, soy sauce, cooking oil, rice, and vegetables. Dozens of empty boxes of rice were on the floor. Indri (54) had been standing in front of the stove for around four hours, cooking dozens of servings of fried fish, chicken in soy sauce, fried vermicelli, and chap chai (stir-fried) vegetables.

That day, there was a target to cook around 100 servings of boxed meals. Eight of Indri’s colleagues were tasked with wrapping the rice and placing one in each box.