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At Dromana Community House we have invested over six years providing food for the community in need. Over seventy families weekly are collecting now on Thursdays.

 The Pop up cart is well visited by the community six days per week

The Bendigo Bank Community Branch Southern Peninsula are on board with other sponsors so we can start to roll out more "emerging community needs".

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"It does take a community like ours to feed and raise a village!"

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We are addressing food scarcity and poverty, empowering people through volunteering, education, social inclusion and connection.

We will be rolling out practical ways to eat healthier and stretch that food further!

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Manager - Tracey Trueman  

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FOOD SHARE THURSDAY            How does it work?

• SecondBite  collect and distribute wasted food to over 1,000 community food programs across Australia, and supplies all food completely free of charge. Second Bite works to make a real difference to people’s lives, providing more than just a meal - they provide support, hope and friendship to those doing it tough. To date they have rescued and distributed the equivalent of over 100 million meals. On Thursdays Second Bite deliver one or two pallets of fresh food including pantry items, fruit and vegetables.

• Bright Sparqe donate 40 Meals - freshly prepared meals each week. 

• Coles Mc Crae, Aldi Dromana, Ritchies Dromana, Bakers Delight Dromana, Torello Farmgate, Millers Bakery, St Mark's parishioners, The Mornington Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints, Dromana Rotary Club, Mc Crae Lions Club, Ministry of Meat, Pier street Bakery, Dairy Lane,  Merv and gang for the Dromana Rotary Club, Scicluna's and Woolworths donate food 

• Locals and friends drop off tinned food, long-life milk, eggs and vegetables from their gardens.

• Bendigo Community Bank - Southern Peninsula, The Dromana Lions Club, St Marks Anglican Church, Dromana Rotary Club. Bendigo Bank- Community Bank Southern Peninsula, The Uniting Church Dromana Opportunity Shop, Mc Crae Lions club, Torello Farm Gate, Teresita's Pizza, KUZU Cross Fit,  and the Village Glen financially support the project.

• Dromana Boomerang Bags make bags from fabric destined for landfill and retail those bags for $3 at Foundation Foods and the Dromana Branch Bendigo Bank

• Twenty one Volunteers collect and save food from landfill. 

• Mt Eliza Neighbourhood House support us with Coats

• Knit one Give one Dromana Community House knit blankets scarves and hats. 

• Colm from the Salvation Army delivers our fresh meals weekly.

• Peninsula Community Legal Centre visit offering free legal advice and a coffee.

 

With the support from our new sponsors we will be

1. Offering hot food at the gate from June on Thursdays at 4pm 

2. Building raised garden beds to plant with herbs and vegetables

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TAKE YOUR PICK POP UP

We now collect enough food to top up our Pop up!

Monday to Friday from 9.30 and usually more bread available at 4pm

On the weekends we have bread after 7pm

Please take what you need as we need to share with others.

If you have excess garden produce please drop off, we have a number of local

gardeners involved.