{"id":50665,"date":"2019-12-02T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T18:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/?p=50665"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:01:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T04:01:43","slug":"how-i-lead-ronni-kahn-ao-ozharvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/au\/blog\/how-i-lead-ronni-kahn-ao-ozharvest\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Lead: Ronni Kahn AO, OzHarvest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ronni Kahn AO founded food rescue charity OzHarvest in 2004 after realising how much food was going to waste in restaurants, shopping centres, conference rooms, airports, cafes and catering companies across the country. <\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When liability laws threatened to derail her efforts, she changed the law. Today she is a hero to many and OzHarvest\u2019s distinctive yellow vans are beacons of welcome and hope across Australia, having rescued food for some 117 million meals.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lessons from the dinner table<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFinish what\u2019s on your plate \u2014 there are people starving in China\/Africa\/Asia!\u201d It\u2019s the well-worn refrain of our childhood dinners. We have all grown up with the message that wasting food is bad, and that is a good start, but it\u2019s always been \u2018elsewhere\u2019 in a far-flung and hard to imagine place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are less likely to have understood that people need food right here in our own country. Food security isn\u2019t just an issue in far away places. It\u2019s an issue for 5 million Australians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given that a third of all food goes to waste, it\u2019s hard to comprehend so many people could still be in such desperate need. But that is the reality of food waste and hunger, and the challenge OzHarvest tackles by rescuing food and distributing it to charities that can best reach people in need.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cI still am very ordinary and I\u2019m proud to be! After all, ordinary people can accomplish extraordinary things.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n