Day 3886: Food and Shiny objects.

   

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College Pals Raise $15M and Collect 100 Million Lbs. of Surplus Food to Fight Food Waste and Insecurity

In April 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had taken hold in the U.S. Hospitals were filling up, thousands were dying and the country's food supply chain was strained as workers got sick and businesses shut down in an attempt to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Ben Collier and Aidan Reilly, then 21, had just been sent home — Reilly to Los Angeles and Collier to Connecticut — during their junior year at Brown University, when they observed how labor shortages had caused food from local farms to go to waste as food banks scrambled to feed millions in need.

"There was bad news every single day, and we're like, 'Where can we help?' " Reilly tells PEOPLE. The college friends decided to rent a U-Haul and call up local farmers, offering to deliver surplus food to a local food bank. "A month later," says Collier, who joined Reilly in L.A., "we'd delivered a million pounds of food, and we're like, 'We haven't even really started this thing.' "

Not only does The Farmlink Project help put meals on families' tables (more than 58,000,000 meals in 2021 alone, according to an annual report), by diverting food that would have ended up rotting in landfills, the organization has also prevented greenhouse gas emissions from entering the atmosphere.

"We'll be happy if in the next five years, we can move a billion pounds of food and bring more smart, young, motivated people into this space and enable them to have an impact," Reilly says. "We want to end the stigma around what it means to receive charitable food in this country, long-term." 

"Every few months, I look back and Farmlink feels like a completely different organization," Collier says. "It still feels like we're just at the start of all of this."

 

 

 

 

 

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