Lourdes Juan from The Leftovers Foundation in Calgary
Check out this video profile of Lourdes Juan from The Leftovers Foundation. Lourdes is a Loreal Women of Worth 2018 Honouree.
We Need Your Help Getting The Leftovers App Finished!
The Leftovers Foundation’s mission is to reduce landfill food waste. One of the ways we do this is to redirect surplus food from vendors to service agencies. The Leftovers App will alert volunteers to pick up from vendors that have…
L’Oréal Canada Women of Worth
I am incredibly honoured to be recognized nationally by L'Oréal Canada. I am grateful to be supported by my team at Leftovers. You mean the world to me. ❤️ Excited to meet the incredible women honourees from all over Canada…
Who and what is Leftovers Foundation?
Maybe you heard of us on the news, receive our weekly newsletters or have been a volunteer driver. But what do we do? That is the most common question we get on a daily basis. Who We Are: Leftovers Foundation…
Lourdes Juan on Juggling, Community and Being Brave
This article is from Girls Tries Life, you can check out the original article here... What do a hammam, volunteers delivering end of day food to shelters and an urban planning consultancy all have in common? Lourdes Juan. That’s right, this…
Giving Back: Lourdes Juan
This article is from Dote Magazine, you can check out the original article here... Meet Lourdes Juan, a Calgary-based entrepreneur, who, in her spare time, is revolutionizing the way food waste is eliminated in Calgary and Edmonton. She’s the brain…
Technovation Challenge 2017: Team Unite and Leftovers!
Five girls from Bishop McNally High School won the Technovation Challenge at the University of Calgary. They created an app for Leftovers and pitched it to a panel of judges on Saturday and took home the grand prize! Team name:…
How Food Waste Ended Up on Restaurant Menus
The rich eat more animal products; the poor often subsist on staple crops like rice or corn. Some kitchens stock fish sauce while others keep a few sticks of butter on hand at all times. Everyone eats, but the way…
Leftovers are Feeding Calgary
Lourdes Juan and her team at LeftOvers are working hard to get food destined for landfill diverted to those that need it.
Our Innovative Way of Solving Food Waste at the Local Level
How much food do we produce each year, and how much of that is wasted? In today’s age where a grocery stores are convenient and plentiful, we miss the major steps in how exactly that food got there in the…
