Awareness raising in schools to prevent food waste

Since it’s establishment, FoodBlessed has raising awareness on the issue of food waste in schools!

The goal of this activity is to raise awareness among school children, teachers and staff and their related families and networks on food loss and waste issues and introduce good practices conducive to food waste reduction, with an expected long-term impact.

Thank you to all who joined us on World Disco Soup Day 2018 and for helping us Fight food waste the fun way!

The second edition will take place, all over the world, on Saturday 28 of April in Life Center Burj Hammoud.

From Uganda to Japan, Brazil to the Netherlands, people joined forces for World Disco Soup Day. On this day FoodBlessed threw a party where our visitors turn foodwaste into a discosoup! An event to cook, eat and dance together. Showing the fun way to save food, while thinking seriously about the amount that goes to waste.

Community Engagement Fair offers students, faculty, and staff the opportunity to meet with community partners looking for individuals to support their efforts to meet the needs of the community on a wide variety of issues.
The fair occurs every April and is a great way to learn about where and how you can make a difference in your community.
Over 80 community based agencies attended the fair. Earlier this week, FoodBlessed was one of the NGOs who took part in the Aub-USJ community service fair.
We want to take the chance to thank all of our hunger heroes who helped us out at the stand. Thank you Hunger Heroes Mohammad, Lenore, Zeinab, Nour, Ali, Joya, Marilyn, Maya, and Rami.
You’re been wonderful.
Until next year….

When reggae lovers unite to say no to poverty, it gives the collective “The Rastas of the Heart”. It brings together several associations including Chap Asso Created in 2011 by Taleb Abdourahman, the association aims to bring culture to rural areas and help the most disadvantaged. To do this, it organizes each year several festivals in different cities. Performing artists perform free of charge and the entrance fee is set at 5 kg of food. Listening to good music while making a gesture for others, here is a great initiative!
On 29 March 2018, we welcomed more than 200 guests to Radio Beirut or a night of high-energy music, fun, and fundraising. We were lucky to be joined for the evening by some of reggae’s cornerstone artists.

Thank you to everyone who made it and came to support FoodBlessed. Thank you to our Hunger Heroes Layan, Lenore, Firas, Hussein (Cookie), Ali, and Hinda for heling us throughout the evening and hunger hero Akram Moussa, Mommo, Chap Association and all the beautiful souls behind today’s event! You rock. Bless! 👏😁❤🙏😏💪☝😍😀

Hunger Heroes Joya and Shadi gave presentations to Champville students about the value of food in the community and how their involvement could contribute to sustainable and meaningful change in the local community.
NGO civic fairs are important since they allow students to develop their curiosity about the world, extend their understanding and appreciation of both shared values and cultural differences, and strive to effect positive change!
Special thanks to Miss Aya Barakat for the invitation ! It was lovely being part of today’s event.
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About the event:
The (Mouvement Eucharistique des Jeunes MEJ Champville / MEJ) – Champville is organizing a meeting with various organisations devoted to help the Lebanese community in different ways.

The purpose of this meeting is to show our young members (aged 8 to 18) different fields in which they could make a difference in the community. We aim to show our members the importance of the work organisations like Food Blessed are doing in the Lebanese community and make them realize that they can make a difference as well.

Hunger Heroes Joya and Mariane were at Lycee Abdel Kader (LAK) in Beirut! 🙂
As LAK expands its Community and Service program to create more opportunities for students to learn, grow and contribute to the local community, their first annual NGO Fair provided a perfect kick-off to building relationships in the community.

Over 20 organizations set up booths as elementary and secondary students rotated around campus learning about the value of NGO programs in Lebanon and how their involvement could contribute to sustainable and meaningful change in the local community.

Commited to making a difference, Elle & Vire – Lebanon is teaming up with FoodBlessed , a local hunger-relief initiative, to spread love and serve meals to 250 people in need on Saturday the 17th of March at Life Center , Burj Hammoud . “Cook for a Change” is a hearty collaboration between FoodBlessed and Elle & Vire – Lebanon <3. This unique collaboration is all about spreading goodness all year long, not just over the holidays! We can’t wait for the event to kick off tomorrow at our Saturday #foodblessedSoupKitchen in Burj Hammoud! 🙂 Whoop whoop!
HUGE thanks to every single volunteer who made this event a reality! <3 Bless.

New Orient Academy school launched a campaign against Hunger among their students!
To this end, FoodBlessed ‘s Co-founder and Executive Director Hunger Hero Maya Terro was invited to give a talk about hunger, food waste, and social responsibility. She also took the opportunity to talk about what FoodBlessed does and how can highschoolers contribute to and support FoodBlessed’s cause while benefiting themselves!
Maya also highlighted the importance of realizing what poverty is rather than what it is not! To this end, “We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless.The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.” (~Mother Teresa)

We’re holding a food drive this week in collaboration with Garderie Les P’tits Bourgeons. Parents and kids are encouraged to donate nonperishable food items and sanitary items. If you’d like to contribute, please feel free to contact the nursery for more info.
Special thanks to Dima Tabbara for making this happen ❤️🙏 #Repost @lesptitsbourgeons with @repostapp
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Garderie Les P’tits Bourgeons is holding a Healthy Food Drive for FoodBlessed Organization. We are asking parents and kids to donate non-perishable items to those in need before March 16! Help end hunger in your community,one food at a time!! Interested in hosting a #FoodBlessedfooddrive ?
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