From grandma’s basement to 80 volunteers: Dearborn group fights Ramadan food waste

DEARBORN, MI – As families across Metro Detroit gather each evening during Ramadan to break their fast, often after abstaining from food and drink from dawn to sunset, tables are typically filled with generous spreads meant to feed large gatherings.

For Nadine Daoud, those untouched trays once meant leftovers that would quietly go to waste. Now, they mean dinner for someone else.

Daoud, a Dearborn pharmacist, founded Helping Handzzz in 2017 after noticing how much extra food remained after large family iftars at her grandmother’s home…

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