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200,000 free, nutritious meals for vulnerable Victorians
Extra kitchen shifts turn more surplus food into healthy meals
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Project details
Suggested by: Tony
Project partner: FareShare Australia Incorporated
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Inner Metro
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633 votes received
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FareShare rescues food that would otherwise go to waste and cooks it into nutritious meals for people in need. We provide free meals to more than 400 Victorian charities, many nearby our kitchen, including homeless shelters, soup vans, women’s refuges, disadvantaged schools and foodbanks. With this grant, we would employ a chef for 40 hours per week and mobilise more people in our local community and surrounding suburbs to get together and volunteer in our kitchen. Our chef would supervise 15-20 volunteers per kitchen shift which would result in 4,000 extra meals being cooked weekly, or 200,000 extra meals annually.
Our project will benefit the local community by:
- improving the diet and physical and mental health of vulnerable men, women and children living locally
- easing the financial stress of disadvantaged local households
- providing local charities with more nutritious food than they could otherwise afford
- saving local charities money that they can reallocate to other essential welfare support
- providing more locals with opportunities to volunteer with all the benefits volunteering brings
- helping local business' deal with challenging surplus food
- protecting the environment by reducing the amount of waste going to landfill
COMPLETED PROJECT
Project details
Suggested by: Tony
Project partner: FareShare Australia Incorporated
Region
Inner Metro
Budget
Votes
633 votes received
Spread the word
Before participating in Pick My Project please log in or register to YourSAy.
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Thankyou Fareshare !
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Go Fareshare
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FareShare does a great job in both rescuing food and supplying meals to the needy.
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This is a real Win Win project - saving food which would otherwise be wasted, and also providing meals for hungry, needy Victorians
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Fareshare do an amazing job!
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Simple but effective, FareShare deserve this
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Wonderful organisation doing selfless work
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A proven model with great benefits
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Great organisation rescuing food to help those in need.
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FareShare deserves every cent that can be raised to help those doing it tough.
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Fareshare has a great track record but could do so much more for those in real need if this grant application was successful
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Incredible organisation!
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High impact organisation harnessing 1000 volunteers & rescued food to fight hunger with nutritious cooked meals.
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Good food being turned into delicious meals by energetic and creative chefs!
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Such a wonderful organization, rescuing good food which shouldn't be wasted and helping people in need with nutritious meals.
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Most worthwhile organization rescuing food to provide much needed nutrious meals to the needy.
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This project is very important!
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This one ticks all the boxes, saving good food from landfill then feeding people who are hungry.
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Have donated to this organisation before because it provides much needed food for those in need. Volunteers do an amazing job. An extra chef will be so beneficial.
Wishing you every success FareShare!
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Have worked for this organisation for many years on a voluntary basis. The work in rescuing food, preparing nutritious meals for people is inspiring and rewarding. The look of thanks, honesty and gratitude is worth the many experiences over the years. The awareness of not wasting food has become paramount. Excellent organisation.
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Wonderful organisation that provides much needed assistance to those in need. They deserve all the help they can get.
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Making a big impact recycling unwanted food into nutritious meals for those who need it most - tick, tick, tick Fareshare
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Fare share is fantastic they deserve encouragement and support
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TerryRichmond
17 Sep 2018
Good work! Keep going