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FRANCE - Nantes - DLC, Détournement Libre de Consommables
Info collected by Tais Real, Clément and Chloé visited Berlin in October 2016
Clément and Chloé started around January 2016 a facebook group based on foodsharing.de's experience.
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NETHERLANDS - Foodsharing Rotterdam
Info summarized by the below-mentioned yuniteers
Started by yunity travellers (Philip Engelbutzeder, Axel Kalitzki, Selina Camile, Lara Earthling, Paul Free 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.
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Contact: Tilmann is in contact with Simon Damstra from the core team.
POLAND - Foodsharing Warsaw
Info provided by karolinahansen on Slack, in September 2016 Janina Abels visited Warsaw
Agnieszka and Karolina started a facebook group based on foodsharing.de's experience around March 2016.
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TAIWAN - Taipei - Foodsharing Taiwan
Info provided by stefan_fstaiwan on Slack
Stefan started around April 2016 a facebook group (FB page with 780 likes (by 10/2016)) based on foodsharing.de's experience.
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Have a platform (webpage, app) in Chinese language.
TURKEY - Ankara - Çerçöp Çorbacılar
Info provided by gigi on Slack
Çerçöp Çorbacılar is freegan group from Ankara, Turkey.
Since 2013, the group prepares soups from saved veggies with refugees, local collectives in public parks or usually in a cafe in Çankaya district. New events are always announced on the facebook page. Çerçöp aims to find local solutions against food wasting in Ankara. That's why the events are open to all locals without any conditions.
Community: +5.000 likes on Facebook page. 3 leaders and around 20 people form the orga-group, which use WhatsApp and mailing lists for the communication.
Stores: The orga-group carries out pick-ups at a Turkish "bazaar" once per week. Also, there is a good connection and cooperation between the group and two big supermarkets. Due to huge amounts of fresh food the group picks up only once a week. Çerçöp uses a very central point in the streets to cook and share the saved food every Sunday.
Difficulties: People are still not familiar with the idea of Foodsharing. Therefore, the first task is always to educate the group and the people of Ankara to rescue more food. People don't usually want to take cooked food or even the fresh rescued food. To change this mentality is the greatest challenge . The group is still working on this task and share the advantages of freeganism on social media. A system without any requirement of membership, where people can easily find the locations of the food share points and take/leave fresh food is needed for the next steps, due to huge amounts of rescued food from Çerçöp. Another difficulty is finding more people to take responsibilities in foodsharing.