{"id":246929,"date":"2023-01-10T11:22:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T09:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/?p=126890"},"modified":"2023-01-10T11:22:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T09:22:03","slug":"ozzy-nel-is-appointed-to-the-board-of-sa-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/ozzy-nel-is-appointed-to-the-board-of-sa-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozzy Nel is appointed to the board of SA Harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1 \">\n<aside id=\"republication_tracker_tool-2\" class=\"republication_tracker_tool clearfix\" readability=\"-48\">\n<h5 class=\"adtitle\">Republish for Free<\/h5>\n<div class=\"license\">\n<p><button name=\"Republish This Story\" id=\"cc-btn\" class=\"republication-tracker-tool-button\">Republish This Story<\/button><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"license\" rel=\"noreferrer license noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/4.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ozzy-nel-is-appointed-to-the-board-of-sa-harvest.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ozzy-nel-is-appointed-to-the-board-of-sa-harvest.png\"><\/noscript><\/div>\n<div class=\"message\" readability=\"9\">\n<p>Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Ozzy Nel is COO and newly appointed board member of SA Harvest, the food rescue and hunger relief organisation that has rescued over 10,6 million tonnes of food from going to waste and delivered it to more than 200 beneficiaries across South Africa, resulting in the delivery of over 35,3 million meals.<\/p>\n<p>Nel believes his position at SA Harvest brings him full circle in his life. \u201cAt 16 my brother and I got involved with communities in Ivory Park and the surrounding areas \u2013 we did development work, played soccer, and taught martial arts, while my parents taught reading and writing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After matriculating in 1996, Nel studied extensively to become a chef, as well as a manager and team builder extraordinaire. When he built his own team to work with him in restaurant management, he chose people from the areas where he had worked as a youngster \u2013 that was 20 years ago, and many of the original team are with him today at SA Harvest.<\/p>\n<p>He describes a core strength as \u201cmanaging multiple outlets\u201d which he did as he worked for several years with Jamie Oliver and various other upmarket restaurants. When the pandemic struck and he lost all his restaurant business, he by chance encountered airline entrepreneur Gidon Novick who is also chairman of SA Harvest. Nel\u2019s response was instant. He wanted to volunteer.<\/p>\n<p>His skills, insight, cheffing experience and most importantly, his passion for supporting vulnerable people, ensured that was a perfect fit for the SA Harvest structure.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Browde, CEO of SA Harvest, says Nel\u2019s influence is felt throughout SA Harvest\u2019s operations. \u201cFrom budgeting, procurement, and warehouse management to logistics control, marketing, and digital systems, and from diesel engines to relationship building, Ozzy keeps things running professionally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ozzy\u2019s \u2018team\u2019 includes the whole SA Harvest family: team mates, beneficiaries, benefactors, donors, food partners and suppliers. Browde adds, \u201cSA Harvest has become a major player in the fight to end hunger in South Africa in three short years, and we couldn\u2019t have done this without Ozzy\u2019s dedication to his team and to ending hunger in South Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nel says joining SA Harvest was a remarkably eye-opening experience. \u201cIn the restaurants we had made an effort to reduce food waste and direct it to vulnerable communities, but I had no idea that 10 million tons of food waste go into landfills in South Africa each year, while millions go hungry and child malnutrition is a major issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s delighted to be part of an organisation that is helping to reduce hunger, but adds that \u201cwe\u2019ve only scratched the surface of the systemic issue of food waste and hunger. We have a long way to go and we\u2019re working at involving as many people as possible. There\u2019s space for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, Nel says the country is still in a crisis situation as far as the need for moving food to vulnerable communities is concerned, but what is most exciting is the opportunity for SA Harvest to be involved in systemic interventions that can change the broken food system in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Follow SA Harvest\u2019s journey on Instagram or for more information go to www.saharvest.org.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mypr.co.za\/contact\/featured\/\">CLICK HERE to submit your press release to MyPR.co.za for free<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"post-views-icon dashicons dashicons-chart-bar\"><\/span> <span class=\"post-views-label\">Press Release Views since 1 July 2022:<\/span> <span class=\"post-views-count\">49<\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-pagination pagination\">Pages: <span class=\"post-page-numbers current\" aria-current=\"page\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Page <\/span>1<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/ozzy-nel-is-appointed-to-the-board-of-sa-harvest\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Page <\/span>2<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\">Source: MyPR.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republish for Free Republish This Story Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. 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