Osaka street corner refrigerator "Please feel free" to provide whole dishes and accept ingredients.

Here is some baggage, please make yourself at home. On the street corner of Toshikawa District, Osaka City, there is a refrigerator with the words "put extra ingredients, take whatever you want to OK". While running orthopaedics and cram schools nearby, Mr. Motokawa (44) is also committed to solving the problems faced by areas such as aging and food loss. Our goal is to establish a mechanism of circular goodwill.

The Dongtan Road area with a large number of apartments after the 1970s. In front of the underground shopping street, where residents are aging and vacant shops are becoming more and more prominent, there is a refrigerator with orange and yellowish green as the tone, depicting food and Mr. Honkawa's smile. "I only went back with what I could eat. Because there are people coming from behind. "there's still a shouting sign.

When the door of the freezer is opened, vegetables in the Kansai area known as "Obanai" are packed in sealed containers and entered in the form of boxed lunches. The menu is changed every day. This is something that Mr. Motokawa and the volunteer staff cannot sell in the main vegetable store that is open during the day.

The supermarket on the shopping street was closed in January this year. Mr. Honkawa learned that there are refrigerators overseas that can donate food to people who have lost their jobs because of novel coronavirus's scourge. In order to take into account the response of shopping refugees and support for the poor, Wanshidong Awaji was opened in March and refrigerators were placed.

In the refrigerator, residents can also donate food. In Awaji, we carefully see the consumption period and safety while using it. Combine the ingredients provided by local farmers and shops to make the whole dish. "this is a so-called 'food-driven' arrangement to accept donations of leftover food in the family," Mr. Motokawa explained. "

"I have tears streaming down my face." my child is very happy. " Such a letter is sometimes attached to the container returned to the store. Honkawa and others hope that as long as taking into account the situation of users, even if only a little redemption. (common)

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