This year I tried to spread the awareness of various aspects of food wastage and specially what we can do on our day to day life among our young and adult team members of "Green Brigade" - the environmental group formed by me and is at very close to my heart...

It was amazing to note some of our member's own 1st hand experiences of poverty, food shortage, malnutrition etc. One member (who is attached to various NGOs) has described level of our knowledge on food crisis/poverty at the ground level in India. She mentioned that one volunteer in her NGO was suggesting to have a spool filled with peanuts to be included in all the village children's daily meal to fight malnutrition!!! when those kids are not in a position to have a proper meal of rice and lentil in a day due to their economic condition.

At the end I have shown the famous (or shall I call it infamous ??) picture taken by Kevin Carter which won the Pulitzer prize (please have a look at the photo below). The photo shows a kid transformed into a near skeleton due to hunger/malnutrition can't even walk...he was crawling and a vulture was just behind him following him...just waiting for the kid's eventual and sure death in coming days!!!The photographer committed suicide after few months as he could not sustain the mental pressure after taking that photograph....

It was a nice gathering and many of the members participated with their various emotional experiences and at the end we took the pledge not to waste a single grain of food in our day to day life...