Foodforlife

ISKM Food Relief is a registered non profit organisation dedicated to distributing free warm nutritious meals to those in need

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PACKAGED FOOD RELIEF

Packaged meals are donated to local community groups and centres on a weekly basis to help stock their emergency relief supplies

Current beneficiaries:

- Maleny Neighbourhood Centre

- Nambour Community Centre

PACKAGED FOOD RELIEF

The ISKM Food Relief team hits the streets on a regular basis and distributes fresh warm meals directly to those living on the streets.

FREE COMMUNITY LUNCHES

Maleny Neighborhood Center

Every 3rd Thursday

12pm-1pm

During our post in Far North Queensland we hosted many Food Relief programs, including catering for youth afternoon programs at local aboriginal communities, providing warm meals and fresh fruit and vegetables to local Youth Groups and Neighborhood centers as well as emergency relief boxes for vulnerable members of the public.

In 1974, in Mayapur, India our beloved Spiritual Master, Srila Prabhupada heard dogs barking and kids shouting. He got up and walked on to the veranda behind his room. He looked out and saw a big pile of leaf plates, thrown away by people that had eaten their meals from them. There were little scraps left on the plates and there were some very poor children with sticks in their hands fighting off some very hungry dogs, trying to get the scraps of food from the plates.

When Srila Prabhupada saw how these children were so hungry that they had to eat the things that people threw away and how they were fighting with the dogs to get these scraps of food, tears swelled in his eyes and he said,

"We have to see that nobody goes hungry within a 10-mile radius. The temple is the house of God. God is everyone's father, Krishna is everyone's father. So in the presence of the father, the son doesn't go hungry. So we have to make an arrangement that people get fed."

That was the inspiration for regular FREE prasadam (sanctified food items) distribution.