Leading online food and grocery platform foodpanda recently expressed its commitment to fighting hunger and promoting sustainability through its flagship advocacy program, Let’s Do Our Pau-rt! (LDOP).
The announcement was made during the launch of their 2021-2022 Corporate Social Advocacy Report, where they shared the company’s outreach initiatives and key programs for the past two years, including during the height of COVID lockdowns.
The company first introduced LDOP late last year as a program to help build an economically inclusive and environmentally resilient Philippines. With the program’s expansion, LDOP will still include protecting the environment and fostering community development as key pillars, while adding the mission to fight hunger as one of the focus areas.
“Focusing on these main pillars, we are looking at a clearer path towards creating meaningful change to communities,” said foodpanda Philippines Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Daniel Marogy, adding that they want their efforts to make a broader and more holistic impact not just to the country, but also to the world.
One of the several initiatives under the LDOP umbrella is the ShareTheMeal program, which is a meal donation feature built in the foodpanda app that will allow users to easily donate meals after checking out their orders. Launched in partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the ShareTheMeal program will benefit local farmers from disaster-prone areas in the country.
“Farmers are one of the most affected by natural calamities as it destroys their crop and livestock production — which is their source of income and oftentimes, what they also eat.
By joining and partnering with WFP in this advocacy, we can help provide meals to thousands of Filipino farmers,” Marogy explained.
Aside from the app feature, foodpanda is also partnering with Scholars of Sustenance, a global food rescue foundation, to donate food items from its pandamart grocery delivery service to communities in need. Marogy shared that they are also planning to enlist the help of its partner restaurants to also encourage them to donate their excess food items.
Meanwhile, foodpanda also did its share of providing livelihood opportunities and building resilient communities.
