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NETHERLANDS - Foodsharing Rotterdam
Started by yunity travellers (Philip Engelbutzeder, Axel Kalitzki, Selina Camile, Lara Earthling and maybe some others) who were invited to the/wiki/spaces/YUN/pages/32440553 building, the facebook group currently has almost 600 members. A team of approximately 10 volunteers does food pick-ups and distribution events, a core team of 3 (Simon, Jan Peter, Robin) manages and activates them.
Cooperations: pick-ups at the wholesale market are ongoing on Wednesday and Saturday at 7am, smaller cooperations (like bakeries) are inactive. They negotiate with the merchants at the wholesale market to only take the best food (limited transportation capacity). There are two other teams that pick up food at the market.
Transportation: they can use the van of a inhabitant of Antonius, who also donates the gas
Distribution: at the Antonius building, mostly to people from the area. People in the building are not so interested as of limited cooking possibilities. They can use a big fridge to store food for the next days
Leftovers: they give the bad & leftover fruit to a woman who feeds it to animals
Difficulties:
- handing over responsibilities from the core team to volunteers - people at the market could get confused if new people show up each time
- finding trustworthy & passionate volunteers that can organize themselves and others is hard
- they are looking for something similar to a front person, who is driving the volunteers to be active
Contact: Tilmann is in contact with Simon Damstra from the core team.
POLAND - Foodsharing Warsaw
Agnieszka and Karolina started around March 2016 a facebook group based on foodsharing.de's experience around March 2016.
Community: 15 core people who meet every two weeks, only 1 verified foodsaver so far (because of a lack of cooperations) and around 30 more aspiring ones (by 09/2016). After 10-20 interviews for different media in May they now get contacted by people all over Poland and other cities already started foodsharing initiatives as well.
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