Meet The 25-Year-Old Woman Who Is Helping Thousands Of Homeless People Get Food

This is how much food goes wasted every single day in America

Ohio Stadium filled to the brim with over 100,000 revved up fans.

Yet about 40% of the food that grows in the US never gets eaten

"We have a lot of people in the US who don't know where their next meal is coming from. That's a travesty. We have such an abundance, and people are in a state of scarcity," said JoAnne Berkenkamp, a senior advocate in the Food and Agriculture Program at the nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council.

So what's being done to solve this issue of food being wasted when there are millions of hungry and homeless people out there?

Enter Komal Ahmad, CEO of Feeding Forward, a non-profit service that seeks to end America's hunger problem by using an on-demand app designed to eliminate the food distribution problem.

Feeding Forward CEO Komal Ahmad shows off surplus food collected from the Bite Silicon Valley food-tech conference in early June. Leftovers gathered at this event fed more than 4,279 people at eight different shelters and food banks.

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So far Feeding Forward has fed more than 570,000 people

And all it took just one lunch to change Komal Ahmad's life

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Through a website and mobile app, Feeding Forward matches businesses that have surplus food with nearby homeless shelters

While the amount of food being recovered with Feeding Forward isn't much compared with what's being tossed, as CNET notes, it's starting to make a dent in food waste and in feeding people in need