Before the participants were given the task what to do, they were having an opportunity to have a discussion and acknowledgement on what second harvest is. "Second harvest has already started 30 years ago in In Indiana even though the pioneer began in 1983 in Arizona, said Tim Keane, the CEO of the second harvest in Indiana. Keane also highlighted that the food that were distributed were not at all in bad condition. They are just the product that is doubted that the product cannot be longer sold in that period. Also another reason for that is because one product might have new packaging or new type that makes the previous one do not succeed in the market. For example if A product has new design of packaging, the previous product A might not be longer successful in the marketing, and that is the typical product that is donated in the second harvest. Second harvest collects the food from several grocery stores in Indiana and some other states like Ohio and then distribute to some spots in Indiana. The citizen who are in need will just stop by and grab it.
Before Keane ended up the question and answer session, he explained that there are still several reason that second harvest are still strive for. Recently second harvest is still strive for operational fund, he estimated that the total fund that second harvest have to get per year is 1,7 million US$ while he got the donation from the government for 0.9 million US$. However, the food distribution itself become problems sometimes. The number of trucks that brings the food in and out have to fight with the quality of food.
All the SUSI grantees are later given the opportunity to help packaging the fruit and labelling the canned food. According to one of he participants, Adjie, this activity would of course enhance the social awareness and the sense of not easily throwing leftover food.
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| Adjie on the left and another participants are packaging the Onion. |
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| SUSI Participant (holding the camera) with another volunteer labelling the canned food. |
