More than 500,000 households across Victoria faced the harshest levels of food insecurity in the past year and heartbreakingly, that includes over 412,000 children living in homes where meals were skipped or entire days went by without food.
That’s the reality laid bare in the Foodbank Hunger Report 2025, released today. It confirms what we see every day: hunger is no longer hidden, and it’s affecting more families than ever before. If you can help, please head to the link in our bio
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So we're seeing, you know, mothers who are working full time and dropping their kids off at daycare so that they can get breakfast, lunch and dinner at daycare because there's no food in their homes. One in five, according to your report, I think of those households that are experiencing hardship and experiencing food insecurity are people who are on $91,000 per year. It's really widespread, isn't it? It's hard to believe because when you look at those sorts of numbers, that's people in your street, that's people who own their own home with a mortgage or, or people who are renting in your suburb. And I think it's, it's really confronting when you look at a country like Australia that we know that there's so many people. They aren't able to eat predictably that they are. They don't know where their next meal is going to come from. And it's, it's hard to sit knowing that, you know, we might have a, a, a lovely dinner tonight, but but the house next door might actually not. Umm, it is a really sobering thought. Thank you so much for your time, Katie Fisher.
