Food rescue is still a relatively new concept in the environmental movement. It is the practice of collecting extra food from places like grocery stores and restaurants and distributing it to local emergency food programs to reach people in need. The food is edible but has passed its sell-by date, as is the case with day-old bread, or is imperfect in some small way, such as a bruised apple.

Volunteers with Amma Canada in Toronto began their food rescue project in 2017. Interestingly in this case, it started with a local food bank in a suburb where they volunteered twice a month to serve lunch. The Georgetown Bread Basket cares for low-income families and had to throw away food with expired best-before dates.

by Sreepriya Rohit - Budomierz, Poland

Sreepriya Rohit is a graduate of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering. She and her husband, Rohit Kartha, currently live in Munich, Germany. Both of them took time off work to volunteer with Embracing the World's station for refugees at the Budomierz border crossing between Poland and Ukraine.

It is for the first time in my life that I got a chance to experience war at such a close distance. It was indeed some of the harsh realities of life that I wish never existed. On 4th March, Rohit and I started our journey to the Polish border.