Using food to build community, end waste and hunger while empowering the most vulnerable
David Hertz’s Gastromotiva, co-founded in 2006, has created a model for transforming people’s lives through kitchen vocation training, nutritional educations, business incubation and food made with compassion. Through Refettorio Gastromotiva, a state-of-the-art no food waste cooking school and restaurant, nearly 140,000 dishes have been served with dignity to the most vulnerable people of downtown Rio, relcaiming over 95,000 kilos of food that would have been wasted. To date, over 5,500 cooks have been trained, some have started their own businesses employing and training others.