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Max Otto Roller: Striving to Ensure a Better Life for Refugees

Max Otto Roller: Striving to Ensure a Better Life for Refugees

Max: It’s great to be here, Spiffy! Our mission is to address the challenge of providing life-saving support and protecting the rights of refugees, asylum-seekers, and stateless individuals who have been forced to flee their homes due to conflict, persecution, or other crises. We strive to ensure their safety, dignity, and access to essential resources.

Robert Lee: Rescuing Food to Serve the Underserved

Robert Lee: Rescuing Food to Serve the Underserved
Robert: Thanks for having me, Spiffy. As much as 40% of food produced in the United States is wasted. When food ends up in landfills, it emits methane gasses that are 34 times worse for the environment than carbon dioxide. Such emissions disproportionately impact urban lower-income communities in terms of health, proper housing conditions, and overall quality of life, according to the Fourth National Climate Assessment. All the while, as of 2020, 38 million Americansthat is one in nine of usremain food insecure. In households with children, the frequency increases to one in seven.