VietNamNet Bridge – Members of a Ha Noi Food Rescue (HFR) have ecstatic some-more than 15,000 packets of leftover food from hotels and restaurants to a underprivileged, infirm and patients in areas of Ha Noi.
Tackling hunger: A member of HFR hands food containers to a bad chairman on Van Phuc Street, enabling him to revoke his daily spending. — VNS Photos Do Thuy
Joining a tour of delivering eatables from De l’Opera hotel in Hoan Kiem District to bad families in Van Phuc Street, Ba Dinh District, we witnessed carefulness, enthusiasm, affability and complacency of high propagandize students during a routine of wrapping, transporting and presenting food to a needy.
Originating in a “Dash for Impact” competition, that directed to control projects directly and definitely impacting a society, a HFR was determined in Aug 2013 by a organisation of students from Ha Noi-Amsterdam, Luong The Vinh, Chu Van An high schools.
Under a aphorism of “take food from a surplus to short”, a organisation aims to collect food surpluses from restaurants and hotels, and give it to a needy.
“We control a devise with a expectancy of assisting a bad and patients in hospitals to suffer improved meals, that partly reduces their daily spending,” Do Minh Hanh, a 10th grader during Ha Noi-Amsterdam as good as a member of a HFR said. “Besides, it also enhances a community’s recognition about saving food.”
With this in mind, a HFR attracts a lot of students from Ha Noi. Starting with usually 30 members, it now has some-more than a hundred. Although all members are bustling with their studies, they safeguard that each afternoon a food is brought to a beneficiaries during National Cancer Hospital, National Hospital of Paediatrics, a needy families on Van Phuc Street and infirm children, etc.
“Our work mostly starts during about 2pm and ends by 5pm or 6pm,” Hoang Minh Duc, a member of a organisation said. “We mostly accumulate during a place and ride together by train or electric bikes.”
Initially, we was disturbed about a hygiene of a food while it was being transported, though saying a students with gloves to systematise and put food into purify tiny boxes, we realised my worries were unfounded.
Hanh confided that they faced a identical problem when they motionless to ask hotels and restaurants to yield them with leftover food.
“At first, we were disturbed since it was formidable to control a food peculiarity and reserve when it was taken out of a hotel,” Pham Khanh Van, selling and communications manager of De l’Opera hotel said.
“However, we find that a HFR’s activities have a benevolent reason that helps a community. Besides, it helps us to equivocate food wastage, so we motionless to turn a providers,” he said.
According to Van, a hotel has been providing thousands of food packets to a organisation for dual years now.
Apart from De l’Opera hotel, a organisation also receives food from others such as Handico Group, Sofitel Plaza, Viet Nam People’s Police Academy (VPPA), etc.
“This is a suggestive activity. We are peaceful to work with this organisation in a long-term,” Van said.
Good deed: Students from a Ha Noi-Amsterdam High School order food into particular portions.
Additionally, a many formidable thing for a members are a ride comforts receiver. If they take a bus, they have to wait for a prolonged time during train stops, and infrequently a locations where they take food to, are not nearby a train stop. If they ride by electric bikes, a continue could impact them, generally when it rains. However, a suitable arrangement has helped them.
“We have dealt with this problem by arranging a food givers and receivers accordingly,” Tran Khanh Duong, an HFR member said.
“For example, if a giver is VPPA, a receiver will be a centre for disadvantaged children, that is located about dual kilometres from a provider. This way, we save time as good as safeguard a food’s safety,” he explained.
Thank to this suitable plan, several food equipment such as rice, bread, vegetables, and cakes, are presented to a needy in a day, and a food peculiarity is ensured.
When handing over a food packets to a needy, a HFR members are unequivocally happy since they do something suggestive for a community.
“I feel unequivocally happy doing something for society. Sometimes, we am sleepy after 3 or 4 hours of delivering food, though a smiles of those who accept it takes divided my tiredness,” Hanh said.
Like Hanh, Duc pronounced he had turn some-more assured after delivering so many food boxes.
“Talking to a needy families or infirm children, we feel propitious to live in a full house. we am also unapproachable of contributing in my tiny approach to assistance these people,” Duc said.
This gift work is also an engaging knowledge for a volunteers.
They are helped by their relatives during home. Now, they have a possibility to ready and container food for others. Besides, this work leaves them with memorable memories.
“I remember, once when we presented some food to a studious during a National Cancer Hospital, she detonate into tears. She was about 50. She embraced and thanked me, that done me cry and incompetent to forget her,” Hanh said.
Giang Phuong Linh remembered a crater of H2O a studious with kidney illness during Bach Mai Hospital gave her on a prohibited day after she had delivered a food.
Joining us in a tour of receiving food that day were dual students, Le Hong Long and Tran Nhat Minh, who were not nonetheless members of a HFR. They had usually learnt about a organisation and wanting to know some-more motionless to go with us.
“After fasten a organisation in a tour to get a food, we feel unequivocally happy and find it is suggestive work,” Long and Nhat said.
“We feel contemptible for ourselves since we did not join a organisation earlier. After today, we will register to turn executive members to assistance some-more people,” they said.
The relatives also support a activities of a students. According to Duong Thu Thuy, it is her father who helps a organisation to buy a boxes meant to container a food.
Nguyen Si Hoa, from Thanh Xuan District, and a father of a member, supports his daughter by holding her to a place from where she has to collect adult a food, if it is too distant from her home.
“I totally support my daughter in this work. It helps her rise adore for a community, creates her some-more mature, and some-more importantly she will learn to honour what she has during present,” Hoa said.
The team’s activities are unequivocally meaningful, and they partly assistance to inspire a food recipients.
“When receiving a food sets from a HFR, we are unequivocally moved. It shows a community’s caring for a infirm here,” Hoang Thi Hoan, 26, from a centre for disadvantaged people, said.
Not usually Hoan, even a bad families during Van Phuc Street were intensely overwhelmed to accept a food packets. Mai Van Giang (not his genuine name) from a northern range of Vinh Phuc, came to Ha Noi 5 years ago. To acquire their living, he and his mother work as throw dealers, servants or cleaners, though a work does not pledge any stability.
“The food from a students partly helps us to diminish a family’s spending. we unequivocally wish to appreciate them,” Giang said.
Apart from presenting food, a HFR also binds other events to raise a recognition of girl to food security. Annually, a organisation carries out a Lunar New Year concession programme where members collect suplus candy and biscuits from families after a holiday and give them to children during Hoa Binh, SOS villages, etc, where a needy or a infirm are taken caring of. The organisation collected 185 honeyed packets in 2014 and 245 ones in 2015. Additionally, a HFR binds a mid-autumn festival for bad students.
In a nearby future, a HFR skeleton to enlarge a network. Its biggest expectancy is substantiating a initial food bank in Viet Nam that not usually “rescues” a food though also plays a executive purpose in enhancing people’s understanding, and awareness, while compelling programmes about food confidence in Viet Nam. However, to lift it out, a HFR unequivocally needs a support and co-operation from private and amicable organisations.
Do Thuy
VNS
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