[Interview] Charles McJilton
This series features some of the interviews I've done in the last few years. If you like the idea and don't want to miss any of them, please subscribe to my blog. The fourth installment is an interview I did in 2017 with Charles McJilton, founder and CEO of Second Harvest.
In two-speed Japanese society, where the privileged few get richer while the poor are struggling every day, two concurrent statistics stand out: firstly, Japan’s self-sufficiency rate is 39%, and secondly, 17.8 million tons of food are destroyed every year.
For many years, there was no food safety-net in Japan until, in 2000, a loose coalition of groups based in San’ya (Tokyo’s notorious neighbourhood where there are many homeless and unskilled daylabourers), created what would become Second Harvest Japan (SHJ), a non-profit organisation (NPO) that is devoted to recuperating surplus food and distributing it to those in need. [Read more]
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For many years, there was no food safety-net in Japan until, in 2000, a loose coalition of groups based in San’ya (Tokyo’s notorious neighbourhood where there are many homeless and unskilled daylabourers), created what would become Second Harvest Japan (SHJ), a non-profit organisation (NPO) that is devoted to recuperating surplus food and distributing it to those in need. [Read more]
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