STORY PREVIEW

2024

Waste Warrior

Leap English and Digital Class

Jawa Timur

MENTOR

Mieke Puspita

Step 1 FEEL

List the challenges or problems in your surroundings (school,neighbourhood etc.) that bothered you.

great amount of food waste lack awareness of people about the impact of food waste

State the problem chosen to work and why.

lack awareness of people about the impact of food waste

Who were the people affected by the problem? What were their primary concerns?

people who live in Surabaya especially teenagers

Step 2 IMAGINE

List ALL the different solutions you came up with.

make a non-profit organization deals with food waste problems create a campaign through media to raise awareness of people especially teenagers

Which solution from those listed above did you choose to implement and why?

create a campaign through media to raise awareness of people especially teenagers. We picked this solution because we think that nowadays teenagers use a lot of media, so we think campaigning through social media and podcast will result in the fastest impact

Step 3DO

Describe very briefly the process of implementing your solution(s).

First we plan the how, we research about what platform we should use to accomodate our goals. Then, after deciding the platform, which is Instagram, we listed topics to be discussed. After deciding a topic we launched the first podcast in the form of Instagram live, collaborating with an account that also focus on food waste

What was the result or impact of your project?

as many as 20 people join our podcast and make comments

How many people were impacted by your solution(s)?

What did the impacted people have to say about your project? Provide 2 quotes or testimonials:

When we present this project in front of a webinar participants, one of the participants said: "Great job!" and when we were online on the podcast, some participants commented and asked us to continue our work.

What challenges did you encounter while implementing your project, and how did you overcome them?

main challenge is to manage our time, between schools, organization and this project

How long did it take to implement your solution?

15-30 Days

Which global goals does your story align with?

Responsible consumption and production

Please explain briefly why do you think so?

After some research about food waste, we realized that the main problem about food waste is people are not aware that food waste is a very big issue. If they aware about it, we are sure that everyone can do their own small step to reduce their food consumption, not overbuy food and reserve them from throwing away food.

Step 4 SHARE

How did you share your project with your school and community? Who did you share your project with? What was their response?

we share this project with our fellow members in organization (Surabaya Children Forum) and their response was great!