Cafeteria turns unused food into take-home meals for kids in need

A school district in Indiana, US has come up with a simple, yet effective solution for simultaneously tackling both student hunger and food waste.

The school district authorities started saving their wasted food so they can package it up for their students to take home on the weekend.

Many students depend on the free breakfasts and lunches that are provided by the school as their main source of food – so when there is no school on the weekend, many of those students have nothing to eat at home.

Every Friday for the rest of the school year, 20 at-risk students from Woodland Elementary School will be given a backpack containing eight frozen meals for their weekend at home, based on unused food.

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