Tuesday, 6 February 2024

Members statements

It’s the Little Things Community

John BERGER (Southern Metropolitan) (13:55): Yesterday I had the opportunity to visit It’s the Little Things Community, a charity in my community of Hawthorn. It is a community that I know dearly misses their former, hardworking local member John Kennedy. It’s the Little Things works four days a week providing over 600 meals to 11 charities across Melbourne. Yesterday they made 190 individual box meals, including Sri Lankan beef curry and rice, turkey meatloaf and macaroni and cheese, roast chicken and feta mash and sausage pasta. They cook between 9:30 in the morning and 1:30 in the afternoon and then they are out the door. Yesterday’s meals were for three charities, all in my electorate of Southern Metro. They included Park Towers, South Melbourne; Emerald Court housing, South Melbourne; and Camcare, Camberwell.

Since May 2022 this great local charity has cooked 45,000 meals – what a great effort. It could not happen without their team of 50 volunteers, who take time out of their own busy lives to give back – people like Nia, Suzy, Ali, Behin, June, Kanchi and Libby, who I met yesterday – and of course the founders Grant and Jane Stewart, who invited me. Thank you to all of you for what you do. I encourage everyone in my community of Hawthorn and Southern Metro to donate if they can at www.itsthelittlethingscommunity.org.