Indigenous communities often find it hard to access affordable, nutritious food and when COVID-19 caused many to close their borders, the situation became worse. FareShare’s Brisbane kitchen has made numerous “no contact” meal deliveries to aboriginal communities in South East Queensland where nearly 50,000 meals have been dropped off since Read more…
FareShare has doubled production of cooked, nutritious meals in response to a spike in food insecurity brought on by COVID-19. We cooked 515,425 free meals in May – enough to feed a packed MCG five times over. “With millions of people losing work and income, many international students stranded without Read more…
Overseas students have joined millions of Australians struggling to put food on the table. Most have lost their jobs, are ineligible for government support and unable to return home during COVID-19. Without free food they risk homelessness. FareShare has been supplying Empower with 3,000 free, nutritious meals a week to Read more…
Three weeks ago he was cooking brunch as head chef in a stylish Caulfield café. Now Arnel Quinoneza is pumping out as many free meals as possible in the FareShare kitchen. When COVID-19 slashed his shifts, Arnel joined the FareShare team under the state Government’s Working For Victoria program. “I’m Read more…
Indigenous communities face huge challenges from COVID-19 and FareShare’s Brisbane kitchen is proud to have delivered 3,500 meals to families in Queensland with more support in the pipeline. Cherbourg is an aboriginal community three hours from Brisbane with a population of 1,400. With around five people living in each house, Read more…
FareShare has welcomed a new team of skilled kitchen staff to help get us through COVID-19 and scale up production at this critical time. Following the mandatory closure of hotels around the country, 76 chefs from the ALH Group owned by Woolworths have been donated to work alongside FareShare chefs Read more…
This year’s devastating bushfires may be contained but the long road to recovery is only just beginning. When fires came within 10 minutes of the Victorian town of Bairnsdale, FareShare’s nutritious meals were on hand to serve fire-affected people at the Neighbourhood House. And last week Melbourne kitchen manager Crickette Read more…
If you found yourself destitute with nothing but the clothes on your back, where would you go? Salvation Army Project 614 offers a haven in Melbourne for the most disadvantaged people in our community. It was where Scotty went four years ago after his home and everything he had was Read more…
Marnie Dixon decided to volunteer with FareShare because she witnessed first hand the benefits of our meals to struggling women and their families. The garden volunteer worked for more than 21 years as an outreach community nurse and midwife supporting homeless women and families in inner-city Melbourne. As a first Read more…
Every night across Melbourne St Vincent de Paul Society’s Soup Vans serve FareShare soup to marginalised people struggling to access nutritious food. As the Vinnies Soup Vans tour boarding and rooming houses, commission homes and public sites where rough sleepers gather, people hold out pots, bowls, mugs and paper cups Read more…