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The UAE Food Bank is set to organize ‘Cook of Thousand Meals’ competition,
an event convening aspiring chefs to cook and distribute 4,000 meals daily
over five days during the holy month of Ramadan in the UAE. This

collaborative initiative is being organized in partnership with Taya Production.

Furthermore, the bank will collaborate with 200 donors from fruit and
vegetable markets, commercial enterprises, and wholesale markets to
redistribute surplus food and prepare meals adhering to high-quality standards
for the well-being of workers, with a goal to provide up to two million meals.
Additionally, any surplus cooked meals from local restaurants and hotels will

also be distributed.

‘No for Wasting Food’ initiative

The UAE Food Bank’s ‘Food Rescue’ initiative strives to recycle unsuitable
food for human consumption, diverting it from landfills and transforming it into
fertilizers. This will be implemented in cooperation with the National Food

Loss and Waste initiative ‘Neama’ and partnership with the private sector. The
initiative aims to recycle 1.5 million meals of surplus food and turn it into
fertilizer that will be distributed to farmers in the Hatta region.

Since its inception in 2017, the UAE Food Bank has successfully distributed
meals to over 35 million beneficiaries, both locally and globally. In the past
year alone, its initiatives and campaigns reached over 18 million and 617,000
beneficiaries worldwide, implementing more than 105 awareness programs

with about 9,843 participants.

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