“The past few years we have struggled in many areas of our life including the loss of our daughter at 5 years old due to heart failure. Since then my husband’s work has slowed down. He is a contract tradesman and at many times he has to wait for months before getting paid. We have …
The Wheelies have been bringing joy to adults and children with disabilities since 1996 by giving them rides on our specially adapted motorcycles. We saw an additional need in our area and felt we need to respond so every second Thursday we distribute groceries to people in the neighbourhood who are struggling. Without Foodbank we …
The ministry of helping is not confined to giving food. I also become their friend, and we give them a psalm that changes from week to week for them to reflect on. It’s about changing their lives. We used to take the food outside and they picked it up from there until I questioned why …
I know for a fact that some of the families we are assisting have been experiencing borderline starvation. One mum in particular springs to mind, who said to me that her priority was to feed her babies and that there was often no food left in the house for herself. Foodbank has changed this and …
Elizabeth and her husband drove to Darwin from their home in Alice Springs, seeking work. Arriving in Darwin they were faced by the reality that contrary to what they had been lead to believe, work was not readily available. Having extended their resources to travel to Darwin, they found that the cost of living particularly …
Jason and Peita went to the Food Barn approximately 12 months ago in desperation as Jason had been retrenched from a local mine, they had lost one of their five children to SIDS and they’d been evicted from their home as they had no income. They were living on the beach using a box trailer …
Foodbank enables us to give practical help to those who have little to eat. Like last Sunday two families came in.
Jamie is 6 and has lived with his aunt and uncle since his parents were killed in a car accident. His aunt and uncle barely have enough to support their own two children, but couldn’t bear to see Jamie go into foster care. When Jamie’s uncle was made redundant two months later the family couldn’t …