Uploaded November 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Ronni Kahn founded OzHarvest in 2004, driven by a passion to make a significant difference by stopping good food going to waste and delivering it to people in need; she started with one van in Sydney. After changing the law to make it safe for companies to donate surplus food, she has grown OzHarvest to be Australia’s leading food rescue organisation, opened the first rescued food supermarket and has taken the unique food rescue model global.
In this UniSA Nelson Mandela Lecture, former South African Ronni Kahn will share how she has navigated and built bridges with naysayers, politicians, people in need, and business leaders and has grown a philanthropic enterprise in order to Nourish Our Country by tackling the global issue of Food Waste and transforming lives, with the shadow of Mandela as her guiding light.
Ronni Kahn founded OzHarvest in 2004, driven by a passion to make a significant difference by stopping good food going to waste and delivering it to people in need; she started with one van in Sydney. After changing the law to make it safe for companies to donate surplus food, she has grown OzHarvest to be Australia’s leading food rescue organisation, opened the first rescued food supermarket and has taken the unique food rescue model global.
In this UniSA Nelson Mandela Lecture, former South African Ronni Kahn will share how she has navigated and built bridges with naysayers, politicians, people in need, and business leaders and has grown a philanthropic enterprise in order to Nourish Our Country by tackling the global issue of Food Waste and transforming lives, with the shadow of Mandela as her guiding light.
