Helen verDuin Palit is an American social entrepreneur known for founding food recovery programs in several countries.
In 1981, Helen managed Yale University's Dwight Hall Soup Kitchen in New Haven.
Through a program called the New Haven Salvage Project, she designed a system in which unused food in the community could be distributed to soup kitchens and other similar services such as shelters and food pantries.
[1] She also helped train others to create similar Harvest programs in other parts of the United States.
In 1990, Helen created the nonprofit America Harvest which focused on teaching the principles of the Harvest system to other communities in areas including USA (Philadelphia, Honolulu), Japan, Germany, and Australia.