Community & Business
4 November, 2021
Food drive for local charities
A COMMUNITY food drive has been launched by Woolworths Atherton to help support local charities deliver high priority food relief items to people in need in the lead-up to Christmas.
The week-long initiative kicks off today (3 November) and encourages shoppers to donate non-perishable food items into the specially marked Local Community Food Drive trolley in-store.
Donated items will be distributed either directly to a store’s local community food relief charity partner, or via one of Woolworths’ major food relief partners, such as OzHarvest, FareShare and Foodbank, and their network of local charities they support.
Woolworths Atherton has also committed to donating a variety of fresh fruit and vegetables to the food drive and their local community’s food relief charity.
Store manager Sophie Edwards said food insecurity continued to be a real issue in communities across Australia and the past year has made it even more difficult for a growing number of families to access nutritious food and essentials.
“By simply adding a non-perishable product in the specially marked trolley, you will be helping someone in need in our local community.”
Items that have been identified by local charities as the core range of essential food relief items needed by individuals and families include breakfast cereals, UHT and evaporated milk, pasta, rice and instant noodles, coffee and tea bags, canned fish, meat, fruit and vegetables, spreads (peanut butter, honey, jam), baked beans and spaghetti, and baby foods.
