Food for All - West Africa Bank is a food recovery initiative created by Chefs for Change Ghana Foundation to create sustainable means of nutrition for the mentally challenged, the elderly, street kids, and other vulnerable groups across West Africa. Our vision is to build food banks that recover and redistribute food to the vulnerable throughout West Africa.

Food for All West Africa Bank will be headquartered in Ghana, with national food banks located across West Africa. These national food banks will work in partnership with charity homes, NGOs, pantries and community/municipal assemblies, to establish kitchens where recovered food distributed by the national bank will be cooked to feed the vulnerable in society.

The first West Africa Food for All Conference has been scheduled for March 2016. The conference will provide an opportunity for policy makers and other players in the food supply chain to explore timely topics and solutions towards finding lasting and sustainable solutions to the perennial challenges of food waste and hunger in Ghana and West Africa. It will highlight the need for integrated approaches from public-private partnerships with the goal of launching cross-sectoral alliances. Thematic areas to be addressed during the conference include:• Social protection and agriculture-2015 UN World Food Day theme• Ensuring sustainable food security in West Africa by reducing food waste and loss• Intra-regional solution towards creating sustainable means of nutrition for less privileged• Building West Africa’s first food recovery bank-solution to food wastage and losses• Looking at food recovery investment opportunities

Food for All - West Africa is governed by a panel of agencies and individuals drawn from stakeholders in the West Africa food supply chain, with oversight responsibility from respective Food and Drugs Authorities in member countries. In Ghana, the Food for All Ghana campaign runs in collaboration with the Ghana Food and Drugs authority, whose oversight responsibility is to ensure wholesome food is recovered and used to feed the vulnerable.

* Food for All, West Africa * Food for All, Ghana * Food for All, Benin * Chefs for Change Ghana Foundation