Year 10 Community Challenge

Community Challenge 10R

We have chosen to dedicate our community challenge support  as a class to the social enterprise Lentil as Anything. The entreprise aims to provide affordable and nutritious, ’pay as you feel’ restaurant quality meals, with volunteers as chefs. The affordability means that this business can support community members with a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds, those especially who may not have a stable income, and ability to afford food from more expensive restaurants.

In order to function sustainably and ethically all Lentil as Anything locations cook their meals with ‘rescued food’, which is in perfect condition and has been salvaged from other businesses like supermarkets. This avoids it being unnecessarily wasted, and is therefore assisting with reducing food wastage Australia wide.

There are several Lentil as Anything outlets spread across Melbourne in Abbotsford, Thornbury and St Kilda, and one in Newton, Sydney. We will be visiting the Abbotsford establishment on the 7th November as a class excursion. 

We were also inspired to support this organisation as we are aware that they offer professional barista courses for Australian refugees and asylum seekers. This gives them the opportunity to welcome people who have recently arrived in Australia, and offer them reliable employment experience, and some qualification for future jobs.

To support this fantastic organisation one can of course visit one of the restaurants, or also donate a regular monthly amount or a one off payment via lentilasanything.com/donations

Violet O'Dowd and Saskia Junge