Think. Eat. Save.

The Story

Hi! My name is Shi Wee and I'm 19 years old.

Can you imagine if every time you opened your wallet, a third of your cash fell out – and you did nothing about it? Consider the fact that one-third of the food grown annually for human consumption is never eaten – for one reason or another, it ends up in the garbage. That’s 1.3 billion tons of food annually. In Malaysia, families chuck about 25% of the food and beverages they buy at an average cost of RM10,800 anually. (SWCorp, 2020) Yet at the same time, 800 million people around the globe are starving. It’s a problem – but one with no shortage of solutions.

I am an organizing committee of Clean Our Plate Project (COP) from AIESEC in Johor Bahru. COP is a project aligned with the 12th SDG - Responsible Consumption and Production. We aim to create the awareness towards this issue and change the perspective of public towards surplus food as a food for human consumption. Through the activities and awareness campaign run from COP project, we wish to help more young people to understand that everyone could contribute in solving this issue as big changes come from small actions, and it starts from them.

Your fund raised will help us to continue our future projects in empowering more youths to be the catalyst of the change.

Thank you!