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WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) – A Wichita non-profit is bringing a brand new kitchen idea to Towne West Sq. to raised profit the opposite non-profits it serves.
ICT Meals Rescue is opening its Upcycle Kitchen in an outdated meals court docket area, throughout the mall from Dicks Sporting Items. Volunteers will cook dinner meals within the area utilizing donated meals to present to organizations in want.
“Rice that we get from Chipotle…we’ll flip it right into a casserole after which we’ll ship that out as a full meal as a substitute of simply bits and items,” Director of Neighborhood Engagement Tonya Ross mentioned.
Since 2016, employees with ICT Meals Rescue have been gathering leftover or surplus meals to assist the hungry and minimize down on meals waste. Ross mentioned the non-profit has saved over 11 million kilos of meals from the landfill because it began.
“Of us can are available, they will cook dinner,” she mentioned. “They will chop; they will do something that they should, you realize, to make that meal, sort of get the place it must go.”
Ross mentioned it was her thought to convey the idea to Towne West. ICT Meals Rescue is presently within the area, bringing the Upcycle Kitchen to life.
“I introduced my govt director in and I used to be like, have a look at this area, and she or he was like, ‘I hate it,’” Ross mentioned.”
“She got here again there the subsequent day, and she or he sat proper over there on that bench, and she or he was like, ‘Okay, I see it.’”
Nevertheless, ICT Meals Rescue nonetheless wants donations to complete the challenge. The kitchen wants a brand new hood, electrical home equipment and pledges for ongoing donations like salt and pepper or protein
“Even when that they had a freezer that perhaps wasn’t dangerous, however they simply wished to get a brand new one, we might gladly take that,” Ross mentioned.
You’ll be able to signal as much as volunteer or donate to ICT Meals Rescue on its web site, simply click on right here. Ross mentioned the non-profit hopes to start out cooking within the area in June.
“We might love any donations that we may get, whether or not that will be monetary or, you realize, even when that is a pot or a pan that we’ll want right here for the kitchen,” she mentioned.
