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Community Fridges – pushing concept to public discourse.

Looking to push the concept of Community Fridges to the global discourse.
The concept: Placing fridges in low-income neighborhoods, to allow the public, restaurants, companies to donate food and for anyone who needs it, to freely take it. Allowing the reduction of food waste and donating food to the underprivileged.

Food safety companies donate workers who check the food and/or train volunteers to do so. Trucking companies can donate shipment from food donation locations to the fridges. Elderly residents, who know the community, can volunteer to ‘guard’ the fridges and make sure those who take the food actually need it – providing respect and ’employment’ to these individuals. Everything in this concept requires little funding and allows companies who donate to publicize “contributing to society”, which can raise their public image.

The concept is active in Asia for decades now, started in Europe within the last decade and in the US in the past few years.

I wish to get US celebrities to push the idea, to get it into public discourse.

I know this isn’t directly connected to the topic, I just tried contacting agents, assistants and managers of celebrities and never got a reply or a notice of passing the idea. Think the skills you have may be beneficial to get the concept into the right people.

Examples:

https://www.hubbub.org.uk/the-community-fridge running this in the UK.
Robin Food – A restaurant that collects unsold food from markets, converts it into meals and offers it, pay-as-you-wish, to the public.

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