September Update

To date over 133,000 kilograms of food saved and over 266,000 meal equivalents distributed!

Can you believe there is less than 3 months until Christmas? This means that Food Rescue needs to gear up so we can provide more nutritious food for those who might not be sitting down to a festive Christmas lunch.                                                                                            

Did you know, that with $20 Food Rescue can provide food for 19 nutritious meals? Our aim, to the end of December 2012 is to provide 100,000 meal equivalents to help those in need. We hope you will get behind us to achieve this! 

A big thanks again to Leap Consulting who so kindly facilitated a donation of a UPS (uninterrupted power supply for those who, like me, are not tech savvy). And a massive thank you to Letizia Palmer for donating it. We’re always surprised at the kindness of individuals and business and of course very grateful! 

For the month of September our vans, which are donated by Argonaut, Ausdrill and GR Engineering, delivered 37,000 meal equivalents.  No doubt they will be working overtime from here until Christmas! 

A big shout out to the year 8 Christchurch Grammar boys from Nicole Xouris’s Humanities Class. The boys had a ball getting in the warehouse and sorting the produce and learnt a few things along the way. Thanks to Nicole for organising the volunteering and we very much look forward to having their happy faces back in term 4. They were a great help and it’s fantastic to be able to show our kids how much good food would actually be going to waste. Some pics to follow in the coming weeks…

 

For anyone who’s ever volunteered at Food Rescue quality checking the produce, you would know that we weigh and record our waste at the end of every shift. The waste is then placed in an organic bin which is later converted into compost, soil conditioner and mulch products by Sita. However, some of our waste can still be used to feed animals.

 

Meet Harmony and Ebony doing their bit for Food Rescue!  Thanks Naomi for sending in the pic.  Some of our volunteers take scraps home to feed their chickens and ducks which we think is just fantastic.

Food Rescue’s Santa’s List

If you have any of the following which you’re not using and are happy to give them away to a very good  cause then please think of us!

* Small Bar Fridge	* Laminator	* Vacuum Cleaner
* White Board	* Walkie Stacker

 

On behalf of the board and team at Food Rescue, thank you so much for your support.

 We couldn’t do it without you!

 Sam

Samantha Soley                                                                              

General Manager