The plight of International students stranded by the pandemic has made headline news with many losing their jobs and unable to afford food, access financial help or return home. FareShare has nourished this vulnerable group with an incredible 292,000 meals thanks to the enormous efforts of our chefs, generosity of 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…
As Australia celebrates National Volunteer Week, FareShare has novel plans to recognise our wonderful 1,500-strong unpaid work force in Victoria and Queensland. While social distancing measures have caused FareShare to suspend 800 of our regular kitchen volunteers in Melbourne and 445 in Brisbane, their contribution will not be forgotten. In 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…
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…
FareShare has received a huge nutrition boost with our biggest ever food donation – 55,760 litres of passata! The 44 drums of Italian-style tomato puree were generously provided by SPC. According to FareShare’s Kellie Watson, the ‘red gold’ will create around 372,000 meals when paired with meat and veggies or 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…
Back in 1999 Les Baguley was working a 100-hour week for Australia’s biggest flower growers in Melbourne’s Southeast. Born into a business started by his parents, horticultural legends Frank and Isabel, Les could scarcely have imagined how his life would change when aged just 47 he suffered a catastrophic stroke. Read more…