Save Food, Waste Nothing - The food you waste could be somebody's plate

IT'S TIME WE GET SERIOUS ABOUT FOOD WASTE ISSUE

THE PROBLEM 🔑

Do you know how much FOOD WASTE is produced by Malaysians in our daily life?

It's 16688 tonnes per day!!
An amount that can easily feed 2.2 million people, 3 times per day!

While people are deeply concerned about the problem of plastics slowly filling up the earth, do you know that it only constitutes 14% of the trash in landfills, whilst there is 49% of the waste actually from organic food waste?

Inspire to reduce at least 50% of food waste by the end of 2030 through cultivating responsible consumption habits, we started our journey with Clean Our Plate as a national project of AIESEC since 2016 in creating awareness, provide easy and obvious initiatives to youth in Malaysia through school workshops, café engagement, University collaboration, and public awareness.

THE SOLUTION 💡

The project consists of several components for both secondary school students and global volunteers.

1st - Train the Trainer (TtT)

This aims to equip our volunteers with enough knowledge and skills in tackling food waste issues with the training provided by our national partner MAEKO and UTM lecturer Dr. Huszalina and farm visit provided FOLO Farm.

2nd - National Street Feeding

Which aims to donate surplus food to low-income families.

3rd - School Camp Session Delivery

Which aims to equip secondary school students with facilitation skills, critical thinking, or design thinking process to facilitate their thought processes in planning own initiatives by delivering session related to project management.

4th - Action Space

Which aims to collect the food wastage from different channels and convert them to be useful food with the help of the food wastage machine.

5th - Action Space Closing Ceremony

Which aims to provide recognition to the students for their efforts in completing own initiatives so do motivate them in continuing their journey as an activist.

THE IMPACT ❤️

Clean Our Plate has been reached more than 600 Global Volunteers, 103 Secondary Schools, 21,840 Secondary Students, and 58,000 digital reaches in our social media. Our food waste measurement is measured by 4 Matrics.

1) Increased Awareness of Students

The survey questionnaire was distributed to the students and their correct answers were measured to calculate the change in awareness: 12.53% average increase of awareness across 23 schools.

2) Behavioral Change of Students

Behavior change is measured using the Likert scale where the students choose from 1 (Strongly Disagree) to 5 (Strongly Agree) to statements related to tackling food waste issues. Their choices are then further categorized to Negative, Neutral and Positive behavior: 33.43% Average Increase of Positive Behavior Across 23 Schools

3) Food Waste Reduction in School

Food waste measurement is done in two particular periods, where the measurement was taken for at least two days to get the average for each period. Being able to reduce food waste in the school is a great start to get these students practicing it in their daily lifestyle: 32.7% Average Reduction of Food Wastage Across 6 Schools.

4) Activities Carried Out by Students

Students from SMK Putrajaya Presint 16 (1) raised awareness to their peers by carrying out games and presenting food waste issues in the form of drama play to involve their peers and make food waste issues more interesting.

Goal Breakdown 💰

Goal 1 - Transportation (Workshop/Training/Farm Visit) Amount needed: RM700

Goal 2 - Materials and Printing (Workshop/Camp/Certificate)  Amount needed: RM300

Goal 3 - Accommodation. Amount needed: RM2000

*The fund raised will be used as the starting fund for our projects next year.

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