Summary:
20 years later, Malleshwar Rao runs a network called ‘Don’t Waste Food’ which feeds 2,000 persons daily and is 2008 Indian Youth Icon awardee. ‘Don’t Waste Food’ collects extra food from hotels and parties and feeds around 9,000 persons at a few places in the country, including 500-2000 in Hyderabad. In Hyderabad, the food is distributed among the kith and kin of patients who wait outside government hospitals like Gandhi Hospital, Osmania Hospital and Niloufer Hospital. Before that, I was working with Josh Talks.” So how does Malleshwar find volunteers to distribute the food? “I usually put up a post on our ‘Don’t Waste Food’ Facebook group, and people have mostly been forthcoming..