It was a story about broccoli soup that really brought home to Shirley Zhu the value of the work she was doing. She and her twin sister Annie, who are 18, were 1 boxes of food to people struggling to get 2 , nutritious food in their home city of Houston. One woman, who Shirley was visiting for the second time, was 3 to tell Shirley that she had made broccoli soup for her young daughter with the 4 food package.
Shirley and Annie were 15 years old when they began 5 unsold food from grocery stores and 6 in Houston and distributing it to 7 living in "food deserts" — areas which don't have good 8 to fresh, affordable food. Together with an initial team of 10 classmates at their high school, they 9 Fresh Hub. With the help of a smartphone app and automated messaging service, they were able to 10 residents when fresh food was available.
After failing to build something from the ground up, they decided to 11 forces with an organization already doing this work. Second Servings, a Houston-based non-profit, already had the vans, the equipment, and the 12 in rescuing food, which it donates to homeless shelters and other places of need. What it didn't do was hold 13 .
"We were used to seeing other adults being the 14 and didn't consider ourselves as capable of making change," Shirley says. She now believes that 15 someone's age or resources, it's always possible to do something.
