Solidarity dinners | Carlos García Maganto | TEDxMadrid

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Carlos Garcia Maganto, a postgraduate for problem solving through design, creativity, and business tools, presents its new Givo platform. Givo allows everyone who loves cooking and sharing the act of eating with others to organize solidarity meals or dinners with friends or total strangers, and donate the funds to your most favorite and just cause.

Hello everyone.

Well, Antonella already shared with you
the reasons I am here to talk.

I don't now if you remember me,

but I have been here last year
with a group of 16 students,

ready to participate in a school
for innovation for postgraduates.

This is me.

Our challenge was something we thought
it was very interesting, namely,

what could be done to reuse
the food restaurants throw away?

We thought it was interesting,
but we wanted to do it at a bigger scale.

We wanted to have a better understanding

and consider all solutions
that could be found

in the area of social entrepreneurship
and linked back at food.

This is how we got to visit The Food Bank,

we got to know more about
all kinds of social enterprises,

we found out more about
ecologic agriculture,

and alternative ways of food distribution,

only to finally realize

that what interested us most
was the act of eating in itself.

There is something about eating

that is closely linked
with current tendencies

about the eating act we all are part of.

It is a social act
where we can share things.

It's an experience in a world
where we prefer

to live and share things
rather than own them.

And all that in the Spanish society

that we all know is very supportive.

Our country is the second
most generous in donations in the world.

This is how Givo was created,

as a way for everyone to create
their small social enterprise

by starting with something
we all are so familiar with: food.

Givo is a web platform
where you can cook

meals and dinners together with
friends and total strangers.

It's very easy: you access
the page, create an event,

decide on the number of participants,
how much you want to get paid,

and all the money you raise will be
donated to the cause you most care for.

It's a way for everybody

irrespective of their economic power
to be truly supportive.

And also a way to transforming
something that we all usually do,

such as inviting friends over dinner,
into something more special.

We need your help to promote
this project and see it succeeding;

we also need a programmer.

So, if anyone is interested,

or just wants to know
more about the project,

please look for us, we'll be around
and very glad to tell you more about it.

Thank you very much.

(Applause)