SOS Phl: Turning food surplus into millions of nutritious meals

Scholars of Sustenance (SOS) Philippines is close to hitting its target of serving 3.5 million meals to its beneficiaries using the food surplus that it has saved from various farms and industries.

- — Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas

SOS Philippines country general manager Rachel Luna said the non-government organization has already achieved its goal of serving 2.5 million meals this year in just five months, or from January to May.

This brings the total meals served by SOS Philippines to over five million since it started its food rescue work in the country in October 2022.

With more than six months left in the year, Luna said SOS Philippines' total meals served may reach between 3.5 million and four million, about 180 percent of its food-raising goal. It will bring the organization's cumulative meals served since October 2022 to more than six million.