No Food Waste (NFW)[1] is a movement turned NGO started by Padmanaban Gopalan and his friends Dinesh manickam and Sudhakar Mohan to get rid of the problem of hunger.
On an average, 600 plates of food were being provided daily as reported in 2017.
The movement started in Coimbatore and has now expanded to other districts in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
Apart from a hotline, they also developed an app on which anyone who has excess food can log in.
[4][5] The app also identifies hunger spots by crowdsourcing data to analyse the need.