Real Stories

The Queensland-based family, including mum Sunita, 35, dad Taha, 35 and children Waimoana, 5 and Renata, 3, aren’t always sure if they’ll make ends meet and where their next meal will come from. Mr Tekani works as a labourer and the family live off just $1700 a fortnight — and that is on a good […]

“We generally serve cereal, toast and some milk to anywhere up to 100 students in the morning. What we’re finding at our school is that the children are wanting to come and even nagging their parents by saying hurry up and get me to school so I can go and have breakfast with my friends. […]

Farmers and graziers in the Lightening Ridge/Walgett region are facing their third year without a harvest due to drought. Families are doing it tough having to sell stock and let workers go in order to survive. Aussie Helpers, a rural based volunteered-operated charity, is providing a rescue mission to keep farmers on their properties and […]

“Many of our clients access the food provided by Foodbank initially in a crisis where it makes the difference between eating and not eating.  Over time, they utilise the Foodbank supply to help them get back on their feet and as assistance to make their budget stretch and provide other necessary resources e.g. medical assistance, […]

“Many of our customers queue outside our doors 90 minutes before we open.  This gives you some idea of the necessity for the service Foodbank provides.  We have customers cry on our shoulders and hug us when they see what help they can receive via free food, veggies, fruit and a box of groceries for […]

“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 […]