Food Not Bombs Kuala Lumpur

Our Mission - Basic Goals & Principles

The mission of Food Not Bombs (FNB) is two-fold. Food Not Bombs serves free meals to the homeless community in order to raise public awareness to the reality of the situation, the hunger problem that is involved, and the unnecessary existence of hunger.

As you may or may not know, we recycle food by obtaining and serving mostly the food that would normally be thrown away. We try to educate people (about poverty, hunger and our massive wastage) and at the same time recycle food, and at the same time feed hungry people!

Our Principles
We base ourselves upon the principles of non-violence, equality, and do-it-yourself methods.

You can see these fundamentals in our operation: our passive form of protest, our non-authoritarian group, our community building and our method of raising money and obtaining food.

How We Work
Our group is a small number of people, working D.I.Y. (Do-It-Yourself); working together to help others, to create community and create change. We are all volunteers, and meet once weekly for meetings and once weekly for our food share.

For our food share, we collect food from various wet markets (recycle sponsors), willing to donate to us their ‘waste’ which we then sort through and salvage. Every week, we cook this food and use it to prepare a healthy meal to eat on the street.

Sometimes food cannot be obtained by donation, or by recycle sponsors, and thus, we must buy our food for that week. In this case, we use money generated through fundraiser events, art sales, and our reselling of 2nd hand, redesigned t-shirts.

We also distribute fliers to share details of our meal days and times, as well as literature such as this one, that is made available at fundraiser events and our food share.

Contact Us
You can email us at free_foods@yahoo.com for any further information.

Include your name and contact number so we can respond to your inquiry.


FAQs

The Name
Protests the large amount of money spent on war machinery (and also mega-projects, especially here in Malaysia) when ordinary, innocent people are denied access to basic needs.

Food Recycling
Most of our food is recycled from supermarket "waste". It is considered un-sellable due to cosmetic blemishes, yet remains perfectly edible. We know that scarcity is a lie, there is more than enough food for everyone and that poor food distribution is the problem.

Veggie Power
We are not meat prejudiced, if we are given fresh meat as a donation, or can asure the safety of the food. Because of the use of recycled food, guaranteeing the safety of meat products is impossible and controlling the quality of plant produce is much easier. Vegetarian food is very healthy and full of nutritious vitamins, and minerals.

Acknowledgement
We claim solidarity in the fight against poverty. All people deserve equal respect regardless of their social and/or economic situation. The existence of poverty must be addressed publicly and not hidden out of sight.

Non-Violence
Poverty, hunger, and homelessness are violence caused by skewed government priorities.

We protest resources spent on war and armament when people are denied their basic rights to food and shelter.

We use serving and sharing food, literature distribution and fun to share our message and form our protest.

Consensus
FNB has no structure or hierarchy; all volunteers are equal members with equal say. A conscious effort is made to include everyone in decision making.

Non-profit
Little or no money is involved; food is donated. No paid staff - we are all volunteers.

Politics
Members of Food Not Bombs have a diverse range of political ideologies and backgrounds, and independent thinking is encouraged. There are no authorities in the group. Everyone is equal! Volunteers can become involved for any reason; we just all want to help!

The Food Not Bombs Story
Food Not Bombs Malaysia E-group
Seven Steps to Organizing a Local Food Not Bombs