Helping end hunger

Sodexo’s Stop Hunger Foundation is helping eradicate hunger and malnutrition. With this foundation, we have been supporting projects and organisations worldwide that are committed to food aid for 25 years. Stop Hunger also funds local communities to become self-sufficient, facilitates education and works with NGOs on women’s empowerment. In the Netherlands, Sodexo supports Food Banks Netherlands through the Stop Hunger Foundation. This is how we are bringing the United Nations’ goal of eliminating hunger by 2030 a step closer.

8.5 million meals donated to food banks worldwide during the COVID-19 crisis

Yvonne Renting is Personal Assistant at Sodexo and coordinates all Dutch Stop Hunger activities.

‘Our employees are eager to do their bit to fight poverty and hunger’

‘Sodexo Netherlands is working more and more intensively with Food Banks Netherlands. We support them in their important work to fight poverty and hunger. This began on a small scale by collecting food for a number of local food banks and is increasingly being expanded. For instance, during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns, we donated 11,000 kilos of food left over due to the closure of our restaurants. Last year, we organised a Move-a-thon especially for Food Banks Netherlands. Under the motto “Get Moving for Stop Hunger”, Sodexo employees from across the country literally got moving to raise money through sponsored boot camps, walks and bike rides from home to work. Our CEO, for example, cycled from Amsterdam to Rotterdam. All this raised the wonderful sum of €7,000, which Sodexo doubled to €14,000!

Together with Food Banks Netherlands, we are looking at how to expand our cooperation even further. By exploring options to get leftover food to food banks in a safe way. And also by being able to offer volunteer work at food banks to our employees, for example. Our employees are allowed to do one day of paid volunteering annually for causes affiliated with Stop Hunger. I love seeing how enthusiastically colleagues participate in campaigns and really consciously want to do their bit to fight poverty and hunger.’

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45,000 Christmas baskets for Food Bank Rotterdam. 25 Sodexo employees helped Unilever and the food bank pack. #proud

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Valiant Sodexo

Qlubhuis colleagues got on their bikes early in the morning and braved the rain to cycle from Utrecht, Alkmaar and Weesp to Sodexo’s headquarters in Rotterdam. That was 300 kilometres for #StopHunger!

7.4 million euros in donations raised for a hunger-free world

41,000 Sodexo volunteers active worldwide

Sodexo_Netherlands Sweating for a good cause! A spirited, athletic boot camp workout by a personal trainer to raise money for food banks! #socialimpact