Meet the new Process Drive of Environment Disco Soup Day 2021!

Entire world Disco Soup Working day 2021: A group of worldwide activists dreaming to prevent food stuff waste.  

The 24th of April will mark the day of the 5th Environment Disco Soup Working day 2021, the intercontinental Sluggish Food Youth Community campaign to raise consciousness about foodstuff squander. Each and every 12 months a team of activists from all more than the entire world are joining forces to coordinate the world wide gatherings: time to fulfill this year’s Process Pressure!  

The new customers:  

FROM KENYA

Jane Njeri currently is a scholar at College of Pavia, Italy pursuing a master’s diploma in International Cooperation and Enhancement. She focuses on holistic social change programmes to proactively answer to neighborhood wants in inclusivity, innovativeness and the use of built-in techniques aimed at boosting capability in men and women. Jane is an active member of Sluggish Food items Youth Community Kenya where she served as a facilitator in the section of Sustainable Agriculture & Property Economics aimed at enhancing people’s livelihoods.  In addition, she was associated in the implementation of the Worldwide Fund for Agriculture job “Empowering Indigenous Youth and Their communities to Protect and Advertise their Food items Heritage”.  

 

FROM ISRAEL

Shai Rilov is the Co-Founder, CEO of Robin Food stuff, an NGO focusing on engaging the community in the tale of food squander in tasty and academic strategies in Haifa, Israel. He is a social entrepreneur and sustainability activist and has been leading the Robin Food items operation in the last 5 several years. He is a Heschel Sustainability Middle trustee and head of volunteer team, impact progress and internet marketing. Shai’s do the job at the WDSD Task Force is also supported by Nik Shari. 

 

FROM THE PHILIPPINES

Patty is a Bachelor’s degree holder Main In Lodge, Leisure, and Cafe Management from St. Scholastica’s College, Manila. She has been aspect of various college student system organizations, like the College student Council, all through her university many years. Growing up, she was normally eager to find out new matters, enable other people and hang all-around the kitchen area, viewing and assisting her mother, dad and lola whip up some mouth watering foodstuff in the kitchen. Her enjoy for foodstuff is neverending. Very last 12 months, she was the National Coordinator for the Filipino Foodstuff Month – a thirty day period extensive celebration of Filipino Foodstuff and Cultural Heritage. In school, she spearheaded the Earth Disco Soup Day 2019 in St. Scholastica’s College, Manila where by they saved virtually 200kg of food stuff that were served to hundreds of attendees. At existing, she’s working as a Visitor Relations Circumstance Manager and is a pretty energetic member of Sluggish Food items Youth Network Philippines. 

 

FROM VENEZUELA

Ing. Saúl Elías López is graduated in Agronomy at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, with a specialization in rural agricultural improvement and a postgraduate in Agronomy. He is president of the Venezuelan society of agricultural engineers, coordinator of SFYN Venezuela, and CSAYN Venezuela and founder of the observatory of the right to food (Observatorio del Derecho a la Alimentación). 

 

 

 

 

FROM MEXICO

Pao Rodríguez is a 26 several years old Mexican activist, member of SFYNMx and of the Colectivo Disco Sopa in Mexico Town. She defines herself as a “lover of the in no way ending process of understanding about food” and she firmly thinks that a discosuouppy attitude can aid promote alterations all over the food method. 

 

FROM THE United states

Catherine Zhang is an undergraduate university student at Cornell University in the United States, where by she is finding out computer system science, sociology, and nourishment. She is serving as a Undertaking Coordinator for SFYN US this yr, and she was influenced to be a part of the Slow Food movement right after reading Carlo Petrini’s book Gradual Foods Country. Catherine grew up with a deep appreciation for meals thanks to her Chinese immigrant mother and father and has beloved experimenting in the kitchen due to the fact she was young. She is passionate about creating excellent, cleanse, and good foods techniques for the reason that food stuff interacts with each other factor of our geopolitical and cultural buildings, and tasty, nutritious foods ought to be a basic human proper. 

Seasoned PILLARS OF THE Job Power:  

FROM ITALY

Silvia Moroni, our communication system and social media direct. Silvia has recently began her very own consultancy organization identified as “Parla Sostenibile“. She is a gastronome, written content creator and food stuff activist. “I enjoy talking about food stuff and sustainability, natural wine and artisanal producers!”. 

 

 

CHRISTIE “I went to a Disco Soup in Jakarta in 2017 and was thoughts-blown by how minimal I realized about food squander. Considering the fact that then, the concepts of Disco Soup really resonated with me, and in 2020 when there was an opening for the task drive I jumped at the prospect to see how I can lead to the trigger. At the time, I experienced just resigned from my corporate career in finance and started off doing the job on a spouse and children small business, so I didn’t have a lot encounter to share, just enthusiasm for producing consciousness about food items waste and what we can do to prevent it. I am happy that the crew approved my participation with open arms, and I have liked doing the job and having to know anyone in the workforce. My background is in finance, and I am now performing in batik (classic Indonesian outfits) vogue. I would appreciate to discover some land in Indonesia to start a greener daily life in the potential, construct a food forest, stay off the land and train others how to do the same…” 

 

Supported by Jorrit Kiewik (SFYN World director), at the moment primarily based in Italy and Valentina Gritti (SFYN International neighborhood and job manager), in The Netherlands.