Daffodil International University
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A start-up that redistributes leftover food from functions, restaurants and the rich to slum dwellers and the hungry won the inaugural edition of the Get in the Ring competition in Bangladesh.
The Food for People app fended off competition from seven other start-ups in the national round of the global competition to clinch the top prize at the event held at Radisson Blu Water Garden Hotel in Dhaka yesterday.
The app's four developers will now get a chance to present their idea at the regional final of the competition in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
“Whenever people have excess food they will just inform us through the app,” said Md Atikur Rahman, chief executive officer and co-founder of the start-up. They will then send personnel with logistics to collect the food and distribute them among the hungry.
The start-up took off last year after 23-year-old Rahman realised that a copious amount of food goes to waste every day in various functions and restaurants in Dhaka, which the city's needy people could do with.
Rahman, who is now studying entrepreneurship at Daffodil International University, said the slum-dwellers also make green furniture from used paper and sell them over the internet.
Daffodil International University is the national host of the international competition known as the Olympic for start-ups. Television station RTV is the organising partner and The Daily Star is the strategic partner.