I still am very ordinary and I’m proud to be! After all, ordinary people can accomplish extraordinary things. Indeed, being an activist in South Africa where I grew up could be dangerous.
I had no aspiration to be an activist, start a charity, or be a leader. People often think that when I was younger I must have had a drive to cause change - that I must always have been a bit of an activist, a Greta Thunberg as a teenager. They don’t just listen to our instructions across the dinner table - they really do something about it! The power of an ordinary person They really understand the impact they can have. Just look at Greta Thunberg and the climate strikers.
There is a palpable sense of purpose and momentum. The younger generations are so connected to action - I find that really exciting and encouraging. But we all have power as individuals - we just need to own it and put it to use, whether by taking action in our own households, schools and communities writing letters to our representatives or holding supermarkets to account. And it can be very hard for people to imagine they can make any kind of difference as an individual. It would be easy to be discouraged by the figures around food wastage and food security. But that is the reality of food waste and hunger, and the challenge OzHarvest tackles by rescuing food and distributing it to charities that can best reach people in need.
Given that a third of all food goes to waste, it’s hard to comprehend so many people could still be in such desperate need. Food security isn’t just an issue in far away places. We are less likely to have understood that people need food right here in our own country. We have all grown up with the message that wasting food is bad, and that is a good start, but it’s always been ‘elsewhere’ in a far-flung and hard to imagine place. “Finish what’s on your plate - there are people starving in China/Africa/Asia!” It’s the well-worn refrain of our childhood dinners. Today she is a hero to many and OzHarvest’s distinctive yellow vans are beacons of welcome and hope across Australia, having rescued food for some 117 million meals. When liability laws threatened to derail her efforts, she changed the law. To find out more about OzHarvest, volunteer, donate or give food visit .Ronni Kahn AO founded food rescue charity OzHarvest in 2004 after realising how much food was going to waste in restaurants, shopping centres, conference rooms, airports, cafes and catering companies across the country. "This is probably the third time we’ve had a really late cancellation of an event and in each case we’ve got anything between $30,000 and $50,000 worth of food donated to OzHarvest.” “We’ve done that a couple of times before. Pizza bases and those sorts of things, they are going to be donated to OzHarvest,” he said. “The things that we could salvage, loaves of bread and things like that. Speaking to 6PR’s Breakfast show on Monday, Optus Stadium CEO Mike McKenna said every effort was made to ensure food didn’t go to waste. Thousands of meals were salvaged and passed on to OzHarvest who in turn distribute the meals to charities, schools, women’s refuges and individuals in need. Hundreds of kilos of food has made its way to OzHarvest after crowds were turned away from West Coast’s clash with the Western Bulldogs on Sunday.įans were told they couldn’t attend the match shortly before gates were due to open due to the State Government reinstating COVID restrictions, meaning Optus Stadium’s food outlets were fully stocked to cater for more than 50,000 fans but were left with no one to serve.
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