Woman installs fridge in front restaurant for people to leave leftover food for the hungry

[Fridge is filled with food for the poor/Facebook/Pappadavada]

After seeing so many hungry people rummaging through the garbage outside of her restaurant searching for a meal, Minu Pauline thought it was time to do something to help.

She had never really given much thought into how much food she threw out on a daily basis until she came face to face with someone who was so hungry they needed her scraps to survive.

So three years after she opened her first restaurant in Kochi, India named Pappadavada, she opened a second one with a brand new attraction: a fully functional refrigerator out front, and stocked it with food.

There, she, a customer or even a passerby is able to leave their leftovers for homeless or hungry people to take whenever they need a meal, reports Upworthy.

The fridge stays in place 24 hours a day, seven days a week and is kept unlocked to avoid the humility of having to beg.

“They don’t have to ask anybody,” Pauline told the news outlet. Instead, they just take what they need.

Pauline is asking people to not buy food for the fridge, but to rather donate what they would have otherwise thrown out.

“Food is a precious gift from nature and people should not waste it,” she told India Today. “The sole purpose of this initiative is to give this food that is in excess for some, to those who are less fortunate to buy it.”

Pauline, who currently leaves around 50 packets of food in the fridge for anyone who is hungry, was asked “what if someone, not necessarily needy, took the food?”

She told The Hindu that “I’ll just put my faith in the goodness of the folks.”