The Charity Foundation Foodbank Rus is launching a unique project to set up an educational environment and a mentoring system in the provision of food help to those in need: Foodsharing University.
Foodbank Rus is a systemwide infrastructure solution that initiates efficient changes in 5 areas through the food sharing technology: economics, environmental protection, social area, charity, and volunteering. Food sharing motivates businesses to move to a closed-loop economy model. The food bank helps companies integrate this technology into their business processes and optimize them. As a result, manufacturers waste less usable food and take care of people in need and the environment.
Aside from the food sharing technology, the project provides for the formation of an educational environment for other smart social technologies of the food bank associated with the commodity charity development.
Yulia Nazarova, President of Foodbank Rus: “In the year devoted to teachers and mentors, we are launching a project aimed at reviving and creating a culture of volunteering and saving food. We have been engaged in food aid since 2012, we help people and feel responsible for the formation of a professional industry and systemwide approaches in commodity charity and volunteering like no one else. Creation of our own media project About Food Sharing was the first step for us this year, and today we are launching the Foodsharing University, an educational project designed to create a unified expert community and develop culture in the industry.”
Foodbank Rus strives to share its accumulated knowledge and expertise in preserving usable food and reasonable consumption through the Foodsharing University in order to create a community of passionate professionals and volunteers able to efficiently implement food sharing across the country. The project is aimed at leaders and teams of food sharing organizations and regional food banks, social volunteers, and NPOs using food sharing technology or ready to introduce it.
The launch of the Foodsharing University is timed to coincide with World Food Day. The first of 5 courses, the Basic Food Marathon Participant Course, is designed for volunteers and starts on October 16.
The project corresponds to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Russia’s national development goals up to 2030. It is supported by the Presidential Grants Fund.