OPTIMIZATION: Scholars Of Sustenance (SOS), a food rescue charity founded in North Carolina, was created to capture lost edible foods, inspect them, and temporarily serve those in need. “Good food deserves to feed people’s stomachs, not emit methane from landfill,” says Turid Kaehny, co-founder of SOS International. By focusing on commercial entities such as hotels and retailers, SOS has stored tons of smart nutrition every day for years. Sending surplus food from a logistics formula to some other safe distribution formula has become SOS Food Rescue Optimization, which redistributes massive amounts of food for those in need in Thailand and Indonesia.
ADAPTATION: COVID has plunged everything into chaos and the hotel industry has lost jobs. For months, overabundance of excess food has avoided being wasted through immediate ACTION through SOS, and government establishments relied on SOS Cool-Chain to supply tons of food. SOS has learned the pressing desire for strong nutrition to help immune systems stay strong Building SOS rescue kitchens with incredible effort from staff and volunteers preparing healthy foods for those in need, SOS has served more than a quarter of a million foods in position during COVID. These foods in position carry the total volume of SOS to 7 million foods served since their opening in 2016. SOS is working with the government and others to locate those most in need, a moving target during the crisis.