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Fierce Girls

Ronni Kahn — the girl who fed the hungry

Fierce Girls

ABC Australia

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family

4.5956 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

If there’s something that makes Ronni Kahn's blood boil, it’s seeing good food thrown on the scrap heap. Ronni is the foodie Robin Hood — she rescues tasty treats bound for the bin and gives them to the hungry. The "queen of leftovers" has had to move mountains to get politicians and business owners to agree to stop wasting perfectly edible food. And it’s been worth the effort — Ronni has saved 80 million meals!

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the story of the girl power

0:05.0

This is the story of the girl who fed the hungry

0:08.0

Ronnie Khan read by actor and writer Molly Daniels.

0:15.0

Every evening in millions of homes across the globe,

0:20.0

aromas waft from ovens.

0:22.6

Tables are set.

0:24.4

And the chorus of nagging begins.

0:27.7

Eat your broccoli.

0:28.7

No dessert until dinner is finished.

0:30.7

Don't waste your food.

0:32.2

There are children starving in Africa right now.

0:34.7

A kind of spoiled girl named Ronnie Khan learnt learnt to ignore that nagging. She screwed her nose up at vegetables until her parents surrendered

0:47.2

and cooked her nothing but chops and chips. Chops and chips and chips every night.

0:55.0

And they didn't need to compare her to African kids because she was one,

1:00.0

but she wasn't a starving poor one, she was the opposite.

1:04.2

Her tummy was always full.

1:08.0

She lived during a time called apartheid.

1:11.0

That meant if you weren't white, you were treated as a second-class citizen.

1:16.0

Government orders.

1:18.0

Having more rights than others because of the color of her skin, it didn't seem fair to Ronnie, but there wasn't much she could do about it as a kid.

1:28.7

She did get a taste of tough times though, after one spine- tingling phone call.

1:34.6

Hello? Her mom frowned. Her jaw dropped.

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