With the help of our partners and dedicated volunteers, each week we make and deliver thousands of fresh sandwiches and donated snacks directly to schools for the 1 in 5 Aussie kids experiencing hunger.
In 2013 , Eat Up Founder, Lyndon was living in his hometown of Shepparton and read a story in the paper about how local kids were going to school without lunch. He quickly enlisted the help of his mum and a couple of mates and started making sandwiches to drop off at these schools. From grassroots beginnings, Eat Up is now Australia’s only organisation providing free lunches for students on a national scale. Our sustainable approach is thanks to ongoing donations of bread, snacks and materials. Volunteers and donations have been key to our growth, from supporting 20 regional Victorian schools in 2014, to now reaching 750+ schools in NSW, NT, QLD, VIC and WA.
How you can help:
Come along to one of our public sandwich-making events! These are fun, fast and very productive — we’re talking 5,000-sandwiches-in-an-hour productive.
You can come along on your own, or with family and/or friends. Kids under 12 are able to volunteer as well, so long as they’re accompanied by a parent or guardian.
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