No Food Waste is an edible food recovery and food waste management organization recovering the untouched edible surplus food from weddings, parties and other events to feed the needy and hungry communities.

The initiative was started in Coimbatore on October 16, 2014 on World Food Day with the focus area of reducing and managing food waste and with the vision of making the “World Hunger-Free”. We have been operating chapters in across 10 cities and our Chennai Chapter was launched on 2nd Feb 2018 and currently we are operating in two zones of Chennai City.

Till April 2019, the organization has collected and served 39,459 plates of excess foods. On an average, we are daily feeding about 50 needy people across the city

We have also been creating constant awareness about reducing food waste and hunger in schools, colleges and communities through community awareness events to sensitize the younger generation and common people.

We have engaged dedicated field team for collecting surplus food and feeding the needy in Chennai which involves the following operational expenses every month.