Peru: Food Collection and Distribution

Author(s)

• Kathryn Rohrer, University of Dayton

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

9-2-2019

Abstract

The Banco de Alimentos Peru (Peru Food Bank) is a non-profit organization that was created to address the issue of hunger that affects more than 2.8 million Peruvians. When the Peru Food Bank was created five years ago and became part of the Global Foodbanking Network (GFN), they joined a community that provides them with support and resources so they can learn how to more efficiently and effective. Thanks to the GFN, and despite being such a new organization, The Peru Food Bank hopes to increase the number of Peruvians able to feed themselves with proper nutrition while reducing food waste in the country. During the time volunteering at the Peru Food Bank this summer, there were two major experiences that are good representations of how the Food Bank obtains and distributes food. The first experience was collecting salvageable produce from a Farmers’ Market in Lima. The volunteers from the Food Bank walk through pavilions of produce stalls at the Farmers’ Market asking for donations from vendors each morning, where the usually salvage a whole truck’s worth of produce every day. The second experience was a weekend of distributing food around the department of Huancavelica. The volunteers from the Food Bank visited a small community three hours outside the city, a nursing home, and stayed at a seminary high school for the weekend. Overall, these two major experiences prompted questions about the nature of engineering and what kinds of societal issues it can be used to solve.

eCommons Citation

Rohrer, Kathryn, "Peru: Food Collection and Distribution" (2019). ETHOS Technical Reports. 36.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ethos_reports/36