Rotary Club of Adelaide Central Inc Rotary International District 9510 South Australia
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Rotary Adelaide Central supported Projects

Central Adelaide Food for the Homeless Project

A major project for Adelaide West Club is our partnership with 4 local charities supporting Adelaide's homeless / disadvantaged and the traders of the Adelaide Central Market as we collect unsold fresh food and homeware products for use in our community, rather than see it wasted at the end of the trading week.

Adelaide West Club assists this terrific passion. We asked the wonderful traders of the Adelaide Central Market to donate any unsold food products to this cause.

Every fortnight, project manager Xiu Pei and her roster of volunteer helpers from Adelaide West Club visit around 20 traders in the Market on a Saturday Afternoon soon before closing time.

Products donated are immediately delivered to 3 local charities supporting the homeless, including St Vincent De Paul, the Salvos and Anglicare.

In past years, Centacare has been another supported charity. They manage a group of homes primarily dealing with the crisis of homeless youth, in particular young single mothers. Centacare offers them secure temporary accommodation and help them up onto their feet. A particular emphasis is building life skills to care for themselves and their children where applicable.

To the end of 2017, around $110,000 worth of produce has been collected. Car loads full of healthy food choices.

How YOU can help as an individual

• Join our collection team roster for a day (takes approx. 2 hours)

• Donate your own Fresh Food or Homewares Products

Contact Henry Pecanek today < here >


How YOU can help as a Business


• Donate Fresh Food

• Donate useful general Homewares Products

Contact Henry Pecanek today < here >


A SPECIAL NOTE OF THANKS :

Although the majority of collections regularly come from the Adelaide Central Market traders, Adelaide West Club also wishes to thank a host of other businesses and individuals outside of the Market who have contacted us to donate products.

Please support our Adelaide Central Market donors:

Atlas Continental
Barossa Fine Foods
Bill B's Fruit & Veg
Cactus
Day to Day Butcher
Dough
Feast
Gourmet to Go
House of Organics
Jagger Fine Foods
M&M's Fruit Mart
McMahons Fruit & Veg
Marco the Mushroom Man
Say Cheese
Seven Sisters
Skala Bakery
Smelley Cheese Co.
Something Wild
Thompson's Fruit
Wild Loaf
We even received a phone call from a gentleman with too much fruit on his home fruit tree, and asked if we'd like to collect his excess to pass on!

Please do consider contacting our Club
if you believe you can assist in any way.