As the cost of living continues to rise, one Melbourne woman has started an initiative to help families in her community struggling to afford food, SBS News reports.
Since the end of last year, Rebecca Millar has been providing food boxes for her daughter's classmates, after she noticed many were going hungry.
Her home is now what she describes an "unofficial soup kitchen", providing weekly 'No Questions Asked' food boxes, period supplies, and home-cooked meals for seven families on a regular basis, as well as other community members periodically.
"My daughter and some of her friends were going to school and trying to share their lunch boxes around with the class, and they were coming home really hungry, so I started sending extra stuff in," Ms Millar told SBS News.
"I'd send in an extra lunch box, bits and pieces so they had more to share around with those kids who weren't able to bring lunch."
Due to her volunteer work, community engagement, and living on the school route, Ms Millar is well-known by many of her daughter's classmates and their parents.
More and more students began stopping by her house, so she put together extra snacks for the children to take home or to school the next day.
The boxes have now evolved to include meal bases such as noodles, macaroni and cheese, or soup for those who need food for dinner at home, along with fresh produce and batch-cooked homemade meals.
"I've got about seven kids who come regularly now and they'll share it around with their families or other children in the class," she said.
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Kids in Rebecca's neighbourhood were going hungry. So she started a 'no questions asked' box (SBS News)
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Rebecca Millar has set up her home as an unofficial soup kitchen, providing food for families in her community struggling to afford basic groceries. Source: Supplied / Bec M
