India’s Padmanaban Gopalan Wins Commonwealth Youth Awards for Asian Region

• Tamil Nadu based social entrepreneur, Padmanaban Gopalan, was awarded the Commonwealth Youth Award worth 3,000 pound for the Asian region on March 13, 2019 in London for his technology-based food rescue organisation.
• Padmanaban Gopalan is the founder of ‘No Food Waste’, that works with volunteers and local authorities to collect excess food from functions and restaurants and delivers them to “hunger spots” mapped by the company to feed hungry people.
•  The 26 year old was selected from over 500 nominations received from over 45 Commonwealth countries.