Geelong Food Relief Centre
Ella GEORGE (Lara) (19:05): (594) My adjournment matter this evening is for the Minister for Carers and Volunteers, and the action that I seek is for the minister to visit the Geelong Food Relief Centre in North Geelong. The Lara electorate is home to some amazing organisations doing important work in our community, and one such organisation is the Geelong Food Relief Centre, who play a vital role in helping families in need put food on the table. The Geelong Food Relief Centre provide food assistance to clients who are suffering from food insecurity and are the leading provider of emergency food relief throughout the Geelong region. They have a bulk food distribution service located in the Lara electorate which supplies food to over 60 community organisations who are preparing meals, operating community pantries and markets and running children’s homework classes and breakfast clubs or similar food relief services. In addition to this, they run two mini-marts, where individuals and families can come and shop in a dignified way, choosing the fresh nutritious food that they want to eat. I am proud that the Allan Labor government recognises the importance of this work and supports food relief across Victoria. Again, the action that I seek is for the minister to visit the Geelong Food Relief Centre and see firsthand the work that they are doing.