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Ghanaian chef Elijah Amoo Addo is on a mission to feed his nation on the excesses the food industry creates. Since 2012, he has been collecting unwanted stock or food nearing its use-by date from suppliers, farmers, and restaurants in Ghana to redistribute to orphanages, hospitals, schools, and vulnerable communities through his not-for-profit organization Food for All Africa. They provide meals through a Share Your Breakfast program in addition to donating stock to be used later. The organization supports and encourages communities to farm and works with stakeholders within Ghana’s food industry on ways to combat waste.

The idea was born in 2009 when Amoo Addo was on his way to work at a top restaurant in Ghana’s capital Accra, when he came across a mentally challenged man collecting leftover food from street vendors to hand out to other vulnerable people. The young chef asked what the man was doing.

He told him that if he didn’t help others who needed it, who would?

Making sure everyone had access to nutritious food was a “shared responsibility,” Amoo Addo decided.

Read the full article about the chef from Ghana feeding his country and fighting food waste by Stacey Knott at Food Tank.