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The first cooked food recovery center in Colombia, a specialized place to recover, store and regenerate surplus food from different companies, food in excellent conditions that feed thousands of children in extreme poverty in the city of Cartagena, ALMA has been a dream come true, a goal that we envisioned in 2017 when we discovered that recovering cooked food could be a reality.

ALMA was founded on November 1, 2019, thanks to the event "A Reir Con Causa" organized by Alejandro Riaño in the city of Bogota.

ALMA integrates the collection of food directly at the source, has adequate vehicles for transport to a suitable place where they are stored correctly and then regenerated in a kitchen and finally distributed to community dining rooms in sectors of extreme poverty with a high prevalence of malnutrition. In this way, it is possible to increase the quantity, quality and availability of food to children who do not have a guaranteed daily diet, since their parents have to go out every day to look for money in informal jobs, without being sure of being able to get it. 252,992 people from Cartagena live with USD $ 2.3 but there are even days that they cannot get it, that day neither they nor their children can eat, the main cause of the more than 16,484 malnourished children under five years of age.

All those cooked foods that were to be thrown away after not being consumed by the guests or diners, are recovered by ALMA and transformed to guarantee the quantity and availability of food for thousands of children who lived hungry and without the certainty of being able to eat. every day.

Through ALMA, the health, development and growth of children's brains are impacted. Calming the hunger of the moment and improving his nutritional status and allowing him to have opportunities in his life to become an adult who can contribute to the progress of his country. The social impact of ALMA prevents hunger from becoming a frighteningly vicious cycle: those who live in poverty have no way of accessing food to nourish them; malnutrition reduces learning capacities, someone without a solid education has no other way, apart from illegality or informality, to get out of poverty. This problem makes child malnutrition one of the main obstacles to social and economic development in the region.

ALMA's environmental impact is based on reducing pollution and the generation of greenhouse gases produced by food in its decomposition in landfills. The largest carbon footprint within wasted food occurs in the final phase, consumption. If food waste were a country, it would rank third among the top emitters of greenhouse gases, after China and the United States. By throwing away all these millions of tons of food, all the resources invested in its production are also thrown away: water, time, fertilizers, fertilizers, all this goes to waste along with food. The water footprint associated with food waste, through its agricultural production, is approximately 250 km3.