Free to Feed
Australia > VIC > Metro and Regional
Field of Interest
- Community and economic development
- Education/training and employment
- Social inclusion and justice
Target Population
- Asylum seekers, refugees, migrants and people from CALD backgrounds
- People experiencing socio-economic disadvantage or vulnerability
Free to Feed is a not-for-profit social enterprise founded in Melbourne in 2016. Our vision is for people seeking asylum, refugees and new migrants to have the opportunity to live meaningful, connected and productive lives in Australia. Unfortunately, many newly arrived people are experiencing a crippling cycle of social isolation and marginialisation, exacerbated by a lack of appropriate training and/or employment opportunities, and not having their complex needs adequately met by services.
Providing accessible employment and social interventions with appropriate support interferes with the above trajectory.
Over the past 8 years, Free to Feed has built strengths-based, trauma-informed programs in the face of these challenges, empowering people seeking asylum, refugees and new migrants to overcome these cyclical barriers and benefit from upward social and economic mobility.
Free to Feed has now delivered over $1.8 million in wages, and over 80,000 hours of paid training to its program participants, engaging with communities through a range of events that centre around lived experience storytelling and great food, hosting over 1,800 Free to Feed events over the past 8 years, attended by over 30,000 people.
We apply trauma-informed and strengths-based principles to the design and delivery of all of our programs, as key ingredients to their success.
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