Emergency Food Management
The Abound Food Care Emergency Food Management Program enables local jurisdictions, state and federal agencies, emergency services, and community organizations to provide ready-to-eat, nutritious meals during the first 48 hours following an emergency – ensuring that citizens have access to food.
The Challenge
When an emergency occurs, power is often interrupted — disrupting the food supply chain and leaving communities vulnerable and food insecure. In times of crisis, coordinating food distribution across a fractured network of nonprofit pantries, food banks, and other public agencies can be disrupted, disjointed, or non-existent. A major limitation to the distribution of nutritious, perishable meals is the lack of cold storage capacity. This is especially true during an emergency involving power outages, and is common during wildfires and the immediate aftermath of earthquakes and severe weather occurrences.
Our Solution
Our Emergency Food Management Program is an effective and innovative way to provide communities and their residents with an extensive inventory of nutritious, ready-to-heat-and-eat meals proactively located in strategic areas of a jurisdiction. Based on first-hand experience, we combine a collaborative network of food partners with innovative technology so that your community is prepared when emergency strikes.
Repurposing
Kitchens
Utilizing bulk-donated, recovered, and purchased food, our network of repurposing kitchens prepares nutritious, individually packaged ready-to-heat-and-eat meals utilizing the ‘cook/chill’ food production method to provide emergency meals with two weeks of shelf life after thawing. These vacuum-sealed, blast-frozen meals are then distributed to solar-powered cold-storage facilities strategically located within a geographic area — ready for distribution when needed.
Community
Distribution
With a consistent inventory of ready-to-heat-and-eat meals, jurisdictions can quickly distribute highly nutritious meals to thousands of residents in an area during a disaster. Using a distributed system of cold storage units, meals can be delivered to areas of highest need in a crisis.
Solar Powered
Refrigeration Units
Abound Food Care is proud of our efforts to fund and implement the world’s first fully sustainable solar – powered, cold-storage container, able to store up to 25,000 meals. A network of these containers can ensure that food is accessible across a wide area in the critical first 48 hours of an emergency. These containers serve two primary purposes: as cold storage lockers for ready-to-heat-and-eat meals, and as a cold-storage hub to assist in servicing nonprofit agencies in outlying and isolated areas.
