KFC T&T is do­ing its part to al­le­vi­ate hunger in this coun­try through the re­launch of its Har­vest Pro­gramme which took place at Liv­ing Wa­ter, Fred­er­ick Street, Port-of-Spain on Tues­day.

Har­vest is a glob­al KFC ini­tia­tive that aims to re­duce food wastage at its restau­rants, by do­nat­ing all sur­plus food to those peo­ple most in need.

KFC sees the pro­gramme as its con­tri­bu­tion to help­ing re­duce hunger—one meal at a time.

Roger Ramb­harose, vice pres­i­dent of KFC and Piz­za Hut, not­ed that giv­en this year’s Ju­bilee cel­e­bra­tion of the brand’s pres­ence in T&T, the com­pa­ny want­ed to ex­plore what more it could do to al­le­vi­ate hunger lo­cal­ly.

“As part of the cal­en­der of ac­tiv­i­ties we saw this pro­gramme as be­ing a key of pil­lar of fo­cus as we ex­pand our en­vi­ron­men­tal, so­cial and gov­er­nance ini­tia­tives,” he added.

This in­clud­ed a re­frig­er­at­ed truck ded­i­cat­ed to col­lect­ing and dis­trib­ut­ing Har­vest do­na­tions from 50 of its stores.

Year-to-date, the com­pa­ny has do­nat­ed food that was trans­formed in­to over 45,000 meals for peo­ple across the coun­try.

Ramb­harose re­vealed that KFC could po­ten­tial­ly do­nate enough for 100,000 meals by the end of this year.

He ex­plained the Har­vest pro­to­col re­quires strict in­ter­na­tion­al food health and safe­ty stan­dards nec­es­sary for the most ef­fec­tive iden­ti­fi­ca­tion, stor­age, and trans­port of sur­plus food.

Some of its Har­vest part­ners are: Liv­ing Wa­ters Com­mu­ni­ty; Caribbean Da’wah As­so­ci­a­tion; San Fer­nan­do Shel­ter for Dis­placed Per­sons; San Fer­nan­do West Women on the Move; Church of God Min­istries In­ter­na­tion­al; SE­WA TT and In­ter­na­tion­al Youth Fel­low­ship.

They were present to re­ceive to­tal do­na­tions of $20,000, which KFC hopes will fur­ther as­sist them in bat­tling hunger among the un­der­priv­i­leged in T&T.