FY2024 GFN Annual Report Nourshing People and Planet - Flipbook - Page 31
“The ultimate goal of this agriculture
recovery program is to reduce food waste,
post-harvest losses, and in turn, donate
those recovered vegetables to school
programs where children are provided
with fresh vegetables to bring home
… and to reach the thousand farmers
who are currently trading at NVAT,” said
Jomar Fleras, executive director of Rise
Against Hunger Philippines. He founded
the organization in 2015 and is one of
the masterminds behind the food bank’s
innovative endeavors.
“A whole community is being helped
through this program,” Fleras continued. “I
always tell people it takes a village to feed
a child. And this is the village that we have
created here in Nueva Vizcaya.”
Through this project, RAHP distributed
produce to children at ten local
schools, reaching approximately
5,000 students and their families
and distributing an average of 61
kilograms of produce to each student
each month. In total, more than 1.2
million kilograms of vegetables were
distributed at the schools. Overall, in
2023, RAHP reported that 41 percent
of the food they recovered was fruits,
vegetables, pulses, or legumes, well
over the 10 percent reported the
previous year, an increase largely due
to the NVAT program.
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