Our Impact
By transforming people, places and food, we build culture as a way of strengthening community resilience, opening opportunities for social mobility, and advocating for a healthy and equitable food system.
Community Resilience
Through our programs, we build strategic alliances and resources that can create a safety network of systems that allow communities to be responsive to the social, cultural, ecological, and economic changes they face.
Social Mobility
Food for Soul aims to provide basic human needs, increase well-being and accelerate opportunities for social mobility and economic growth through partnerships, programming and professional training courses.
Healthy and Equitable Food System
Our programs aim to build a more sustainable and inclusive food system by increasing food access, reducing food insecurity and raising awareness around the social and environmental impacts of waste.
In Numbers
By building community spaces where our guests rediscover the potential of food surplus and feel that they are part of a community, Food for Soul aims to stimulate social progress, enable food solidarity and strengthen resilience. So far, in collaboration with our operating partners, we have successfully launched four Refettorios and three Social Tables worldwide.
+200 tonnes
Food recovered
Refettorios and Social Tables source and transform surplus ingredients that are perfectly edible but would otherwise go to waste into healthy and nourishing meals, helping people to appreciate their hidden value.
+80 thousand
People impacted
We serve nutritious and nourishing meals in convivial atmospheres to people in situations of social vulnerability including homeless, rough sleepers, refugees and isolated members of the community.
+15 thousand
Worldwide volunteers
Refettorios and Social Tables celebrate the gift of service by those who have enough to give. We implement service through the Value of Hospitality to promote human interaction and empathy.
News and Stories
This culture is demonstrated through the storytelling of people, places and food.
Cooking is an Act of Love
Helps us achieve a more sustainable food system and well-being for all by joining our Call to Act to be a conscious cook and consumer
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