Feed The Little Children

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Grondal Bruining is proud to announce a new sponsorship arrangement to support Feed The Little Children (FTLC).

This small grassroots charity is helping to break the cycle of hunger and promote healthy eating habits for children in the remote town of Broome in the Kimberley region of WA.

With the generosity of funders and volunteers this wonderful group deliver up to 350 hot nutritious meals, bread and pantry staples to children experiencing food insecurity every Friday and Saturday night.

It all started in 2007 when the founder of the charity was employed in Broome as a WA Police intelligence analyst and identified a direct correlation between food insecurity and juvenile crime in the town on weekends. After four years of comprehensive consultation with Aboriginal community members, deliveries of nutritious meals to the children commenced in 2012. Since this time, operations have expanded to include a cooking program for those children. There are plans underway to develop further support for the grandmothers who are caring for their grandchildren, to empower them through a cooking program, financial counselling and child health education.

James Bruining said "We are extremely proud to sponsor Feed The Little Children.  Their core belief is that feeding disadvantaged children from the Kimberley can make a significant positive impact on their lives, wellbeing and sense of belonging to community.  We share that belief.  We are delighted to be able to support their work to deliver better outcomes for the kids."

Recent Achievements

In the financial year ending in June 2023, FTLC successfully delivered 24,988 hot nutritious meals to the children of Broome residing in 161 food insecure households with the assistance of 23 regular volunteers.

In 2022 the Nulungu Research Institute Notre Dame completed an Evaluative Research Report for the charity to identify the social, cultural and health impacts on Broome children and families who are supported by FTLC and the optimum level of support needed.

There were two key points in the research summary. Firstly, that there is a strong need for the charity in Broome and secondly, that a transition to a cultural framework could make a generational difference for the children the charity serves due to serious impacts of intergenerational cycles of trauma and poverty. These issues are mirrored in other towns and remote Indigenous communities in the West Kimberley and the charity is working to secure funding to expand the range of programs on offer to address food security, both in Broome and beyond.

In the past 12 months FTLC secured support from Rio Tinto and WA Charity Direct to develop the ‘Full Bellies Outreach Program’. Expected to be launched later this year, ‘Full Bellies’ will take food relief for children to the streets fortnightly on Sundays in the form of community BBQs and creating space for children to yarn and kick a footy.  They are also taking enrolments from students for a cooking program. This will be further supported by a grant recently announced from Qantas, which will provide another vehicle.

For more information about Feed the Little Children head to:

Website: https://www.feedthelittlechildren.org.au/

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