For every Mindful Chef meal our community enjoy, we donate a school meal to a child living in poverty. Together we've now donated over 2,000,000 meals since joining forces with our charity partner One Feeds Two. That's the equivalent to feeding more than 10,000 children for an entire year, which is pretty epic!
None of this would be possible without the support from our community of customers, suppliers and ambassadors, as well as One Feeds Two - a huge heartfelt thank you to each and every one of you. We hope to encourage more businesses to join this social movement and use business as a force for good.
In light of our exciting news, we caught up with Owen, Co-founder of One Feeds Two, about the real impact of these donations.
What inspired you to start One Feeds Two?
We spoke with a number of entrepreneurs in the UK food industry who couldn't find a positive social initiative that made a tangible impact while being directly relevant to their business - so we built one!
Where are the schools receiving these meals?
One Feeds Two is able to provide school meals in nearly 100 countries around the world! With the majority of Mindful Chef’s donations going to children in Malawi, a beautiful country in South Africa. It’s one of the poorest countries in the world, with high rates of HIV and a large rural population who rely on agriculture. Whether rural or urban, the children at these schools suffer from extreme levels of poverty and disadvantage. For far too many of them, their school meal is their only meal of the day.
How do these meals make a difference to the children eating them?
The school meal programmes encourage families to send their children to school, boosting school enrollment, attendance rates and overall education. These meals facilitate education and empowerment rather than aid and dependency.
How’s that for some feel-good food?
Our main reason for working with One Feeds Two in Malawi, is that these meals have a life-changing impact, where otherwise most of the children would go hungry. We do also work with UK based charities such as FareShare and The Felix Project to donate any surplus food - plus, we run the Reverse Advent Calendar initiative each winter, to drive food donation in the UK.
