The Frank Montagnese Foundation is proud to continue its ongoing partnership with FareShare Australia.
FareShare has been operating for over 20 years, cooking free, nutritious meals for people doing it tough.
The charity is the largest non-for-profit kitchen in Australia, and is based in both Melbourne and Brisbane, where chefs and volunteers work hand in hand to cook the best meals possible for every person in need.
FareShare transforms rescued and donated food that would otherwise go to waste, to provide nutritious meals to relieve hunger, improve diet and boost the health of people in need.
The charity works through a four step process to provide for those in need, starting with rescuing surplus food from supermarkets, wholesalers, manufacturers and farmers in Victoria. This includes meat, eggs, dairy and vegetables.
While in Brisbane, Foodbank supplies the majority of the ingredients for their kitchen including significant amounts of meat and vegetables.
The organization also grows their own vegetables in kitchen gardens to add nutrition to their cooked meals, before cooking the food to scale and thus providing over a thousand meals a day in their Melbourne and Brisbane kitchens.
They are then distributed free to hundreds of charities including soup vans, homeless shelters, women’s refuges, community food banks, First Nations organisations and groups assisting natural disasters.
Recently, FareShare opened their refurbished kitchen in Abbotsford, which will allow them to produce an additional 500,000 meals annually.
This is the third year we have partnered with FareShare, and recently, our support provided a vegetable shredding machine that saves hours of work each day for the chefs and volunteers.
To find out more about FareShare or donate head to: https://www.fareshare.net.au/
