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GotVeggies - Breaking Barriers for Food Access & Reducing Waste

GotVeggies is a student-run organization focused on breaking down barriers to food access while reducing food waste in the community. Our mission is to ensure every person has enough food to sustain a life with dignity. Partnering with Catholic Social Services, local farmers, and high school and university students, we organize gleaning activities, transport produce, and provide food to those in need. Started with a goal of 70 pounds, we have successfully saved quality produce from going to waste. Help us by sharing contacts, voting in #Spreadthegood2016, and following us on Facebook.

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GotVeggies - Breaking Barriers for Food Access & Reducing Waste

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  1. Student run organization whose mission is to break down barriers to food access while decreasing food waste in the community.

  2. Leadership Teams 2015 Senior Capstone Project 2016 Junior Service Initiative

  3. Called to serve • We believe every person is sacred and is created in God’s image and likeness. • Everyone has a right to have access and enough food to sustain a life with dignity. • Poverty and hunger are fundamental threats to human life and dignity and demand a response from believers.

  4. 33% of food grown worldwide goes to waste Damages the climate Leaves people hungry PERFECT PRODUCE

  5. Partners • Catholic Social Services Food Pantry • Local Farmers • Chaminade Julienne Catholic High School Students • University of Dayton students

  6. What we do • Find people willing to give access to their food • Recruit volunteers • Train leaders • Arrange gleaning time and date • Transport people to the site • Transport produce to CSS

  7. Started small with a goal of 70 pounds. • Students invited neighbors and local farmers markets to donate produce. • All it took was asking!

  8. "Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try" -Dr. Seuss

  9. In India, 22 women were killed each day in dowry related murders in 2007.

  10. We were shocked to see the quality of the produce that otherwise would be wasted!

  11. What made it so successful? • Catholic Social Services • No cost • Volunteers • fun

  12. We had differ

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  14. How you can help • Share possible contacts with us • Vote for Gotveggies in the #Spreadthegood2016 campaign • Follow us on face book

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