Foodcare Orange serving record numbers

WATCH: The number of people seeking support from Foodcare Orange is at an all-time high.

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00:00 We're seeing an increase every week, every month and year on year about a thousand people

00:07 a month, a thousand households, a thousand transactions.

00:13 If each transaction equates to two to three to four people within a household you can

00:17 do the math there.

00:19 We're growing in demand because of the current cost of living crisis that we're going through.

00:28 Dollars have increased, our dollar's going less and less, our demand has increased.

00:34 We wouldn't be able to do this without our volunteers.

00:37 It is National Volunteer Week this week, so this week's all about celebrating our volunteers

00:44 and the amazing work that they do.

00:47 The theme this year is there's something for everyone and there's certainly something for

00:51 everyone at Foodcare to volunteer.

00:54 You can collect, you can work in the shop, you can drive the bus, you can attend to the

00:59 garden.

01:00 We have a community garden where we grow fruit and veg and pass those on for free to our

01:04 customers.

01:05 The way that Foodcare works is that you come into the shop, you spend $8 off the shelves

01:12 of product that we purchase from Foodbank, which is a charity in Sydney that we buy each

01:17 week and then you're entitled to all our free fruit and veg that we purchase and get donated.

01:24 That's all of the free bread.

01:25 We also have a voucher system for people in crisis.

01:29 With that voucher system, it's essentially a $10 or a $20 voucher that you can use as

01:34 cash and then we offer free meat, eggs and milk off the shelves as well.

01:40 We are on the back of National Volunteer Week this week, launching a winter appeal for staples

01:46 for our homeless kits, so spaghettis, beans, long life products including milk and rice

01:54 and pasta.

01:56 Anything that you may need in a crisis situation.

02:01 That's what we're all about at Foodcare, volunteering, giving back to the community and helping people

02:07 in financial hardship who are doing it tough at the moment.

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