- Jasmine Crowe is the founder and CEO of Goodr, an Atlanta-based company that fights food waste and food insecurity by picking up surplus foods from local restaurants and stores and delivering them to hungry families.
- Goodr also organizes pop-up groceries stores that allow people in need to shop for fresh produce and other items, free of charge.
- Crowe's team has recently been delivering 250 boxes of groceries to people every day since the coronavirus pandemic caused mass unemployment and panic food-buying in the US, leaving many with empty wallets and limited access to food.
- But despite all their efforts, Crowe knows that millions more across the US are still going hungry, and is calling on government leaders for national reform to fix our food-waste problem.
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A mother of four sons called me five times in tears last week, explaining that the only food she had left was four hot dogs and a half a box of cereal. Then a senior sent me a video, telling me she was a diabetic and her sugar kept dropping because she doesn't have enough to eat.
This morning, like every morning, I woke up to messages from more people in dire need of food. Every email reads the same: I was just let go from [insert business name here] and I don't have enough money to feed myself or my family. I've heard from people that worked at colleges, in retail and restaurants, even at banks. These are working people, most of whom have probably never experienced this level of food shortage in their lives.
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