A high school student from Naperville wanted to do something to address food insecurity in her community, and she started Empower Futurewave with her little sister.
“So many restaurants, they have to cook fresh, prepared meals every single day,” said Navya Sha. “But at the of the end the day they don’t have the infrastructure to store leftover food, (so) they dispose of it. I have a system to bring those meals from restaurant and donor to shelters.”
Navya created an app called Bridge to Meal that uses student volunteers to rescue surplus prepared meals from restaurants and event kitchens in Naperville and get them to shelters in real time…