Restaurants waste a lot of food,
and even though big companies like Starbucks have recently changed
their policy, a lot still goes into the bin when it could, well, go
into people’s bellies.
So when a restaurant owner in
Kochi, India, saw a homeless woman eating from a trashcan, she knew
she had to do something. So Minu Pauline came up with a brilliant
idea. Realizing that her restaurant, Pappadavada, had a lot of
leftover food, she decided to put a fridge outside so homeless
people could help themselves. It’s open 24/7 and anybody is free to
use it. The fridge receives regular donations from restaurant
patrons and other people, and Pauline herself leaves around 75-80
portions of food per day.
“Money is yours,” she told
The Huffington Post. “But resources belong to society. That’s the
message I want to send out. If you’re wasting your money…you’re
wasting society’s resources.”
