The Food for Thought Report, undertaken by the Give Where You Live Foundation in conjunction with the City of Greater Geelong, provides a snapshot of the region’s emergency food relief system. 1. An estimated 365,732 meals per year are...
Read moreOver the Christmas Holiday period many of the agencies that provide food assistance will be closed or have changed their opening times. The agencies below have indicated that they will have some food assistance available during the Christmas Holiday period....
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Through your 2015 Feed Geelong donations the Australian Red Cross was able to ensure children were able to start the day right, with a healthy free breakfast. The Red Cross currently currently provides over 7,000 meals per year to vulnerable children...
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Through your 2015 Feed Geelong donations Samaritan House Geelong was able to provide more and better quality food to its clients. Samaritan House Geelong provides homeless men with a chance to regroup and find accommodation. Evening meals of donated food...
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Through your 2015 Feed Geelong donations UnitingCare Geelong was able to improve access to fruit and vegetables for its clients at its Grovedale site. UnitingCare Geelong provides Emergency Relief food and clothing, Bill Assist, Homeless support, Education support, and a...
Read moreAccess to healthy, fresh, nutritious and culturally appropriate food is a basic human right. For those in our community living in poverty (or close to it), hunger is a stark reality with serious implications for many people. The Feed Geelong...
Read moreThrough your 2015 Feed Geelong donations, Geelong Food Relief Centre was able to improve the quality and quantity of fresh food available to those in need of food assistance. The Geelong Food Relief Centre operates two mini-marts which distribute food...
Read moreThrough your 2015 Feed Geelong donations Barwon Child, Youth & Family was able to provide food assistance to some of those most vulnerable in our community, including young people ages 12-25 who were at risk of experiencing homelessness. Barwon Child...
Read moreThe 2016 Feed Geelong Appeal has officially kicked off. For the month of October, we’re raising valuable funds to assist Geelong’s emergency food relief system as well as drawing attention to the crisis on our doorstop. Please click here to...
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Through your 2015 Feed Geelong donations SecondBite made sure that high quality surplus fresh food was not wasted. A critical element of their ability to rescue and distribute this surplus fresh food is their two Geelong Vans. These vans both...
Read moreThrough your 2015 Feed Geelong donations, Volunteering Geelong in conjuction with the Geelong Food Relief Centre helped improve the capabilities and capacity of volunteers in the food assistance system. As highlighted in Food for Thought (2014) the system is highly...
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The ‘Food for Thought’ report (released in 2014) is the first of it’s kind to analyse what is really going on a daily basis within Geelong’s emergency food relief system.
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