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Homeless figured out how to rid the world of hunger, and is working on it

Briton Adam Smith, a former homeless man, claims to have found a way to solve the problem of world hunger and feed everyone who suffers from malnutrition. At the same time, as he says, his idea does not require additional food production, writes Air force.

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The problem of hunger worries him very much - he knows perfectly well what it’s like to be hungry when you don’t have a penny in your pocket.

Alcohol, drugs and suicide attempt

“I was in prison when I was a kid... at 10, and at 12 I was living on the streets in Leeds,” he recalls.

According to Adam, his childhood and youth were very dysfunctional. He drank a lot, took drugs and once tried to commit suicide.

In a desperate search for a better life, he decided to move from Britain to Australian Melbourne. There he found a job as a dishwasher in a restaurant.

Work in an expensive restaurant helped him to strengthen his financial position, then he decided to engage in self-improvement. He independently studied the restaurant business; while continuing to work hard at a restaurant, he grew to a chef and earned more than 100 thousands of dollars a year.

However, his life was not so cloudless: Adam could not cope with his addiction to alcohol and drugs.

Products to landfill

To be able to claim Australian citizenship, Adam worked on a farm for several months. It was here that he was deeply shocked to discover how many products, the production of which takes a lot of effort, end up going to landfills, or, at best, to feed livestock. This discovery changed his life dramatically.

Products that the supermarkets refused to supply at the last moment were sent to landfill or went to feed pigs.

“I ate the same thing as pigs... It is unimaginable that supermarkets can refuse a contract at the last minute. And farmers are forced to feed everything they couldn’t sell to supermarkets to pigs. It's just stupid,” he says.

That's when he came up with the project. Real Junk Food ("Real Food from Waste"), which proposed that all food rejected by supermarkets would be donated to those suffering from malnutrition.

Soon, Adam Smith returned to Britain and really launched such a project.

Real garbage food

Adam is now 32 years old. He launched the Real Junk Food project in 2013, less than a year after his discovery in Australia.

His idea is extremely simple. It receives products free of charge from suppliers who cannot sell them due to the expiration of the sale period or the period during which the product retains its best qualities, as well as due to minor superficial damage. He is also given products by suppliers whose contracts have been canceled and they cannot sell the goods.

According to Adam, to use such products is completely safe. They are sent to shops and cafes for the poor, where the buyer can get products for free or by paying for them as much as possible.

Thus, it seems that two problems are being solved - the amount of food that goes to waste is reduced, and those people who did not have money for food do not remain hungry.

The project Adam 120 partners around the world. Each of them contains about 30 cafe.

Such cafes can be found in Australia, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, South Africa, South Korea, as well as in Britain itself.

In cafes and shops of Adam and his partners, over a million people eat. Over the past four years, more than 350 thousand tons of products, which otherwise would have been at the dump, would have been on the shelves of their stores.

Thanks to this project, in Leeds alone, about 15 thousands of poor school students get their daily lunch.

What is success?

However, the success of the project Adam does not determine how his colleagues, who own ordinary cafes and shops.

“We shouldn't be here. The measure of success will not be how much the project grows, but when we are no longer needed,” Adam emphasizes.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, a third of all food produced in the world is thrown away, spoiled, or simply left to rot in the fields.

This means that labor, water, and energy spent on the production of these products are also wasted. A strange situation is created: while landfills are inundated with quite suitable products for consumption, millions of people around the world suffer from malnutrition.

At the dump there is a huge amount of food, and at the same time, millions of people around the world suffer from hunger. Photo: Depositphotos

Adam was homeless and knows very well what it is like to be without food. But, according to him, he is driven more by logic, not compassion.

Distance from the poor

Some companies are willing to participate in his project, while others do not want their brand to be associated in the minds of consumers with “rogues.”

“Some retailers in Britain refuse to give us food because, as they say, they don’t want customers to see poor people eating food that has their brand on the label,” says Adam.

But the poor themselves are grateful to those stores, supermarkets and wholesale bases that contribute to this project.

Andy, who comes to the cafe Fur clemt in the British city of Wigan, said that thanks to free food, he was able to feed his four children after he remained the sole breadwinner of the family.

Daniella comes to the same cafe as Andy, about four times a week.

“Sometimes people I don’t even know come up to me, hug me and say that I saved their life. It’s very inspiring,” admits Adam.

What's next? Adam has a massive mission to solve the problem of world hunger.

And what are the terms? He believes that it will take about 10 years.

“If we don't succeed in 10 to 15 years, it will be a failure,” he says.

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