{"id":11084,"date":"2019-05-31T04:26:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T18:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/2019\/05\/31\/the-milk-of-human-kindness\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T12:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T02:42:06","slug":"the-milk-of-human-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/the-milk-of-human-kindness\/","title":{"rendered":"The milk of human kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SYDNEY 30 May 2019:<\/strong> Foodbank\u2019s national milk program partners \u2013 Parmalat, Lion Dairy & Drinks, Fonterra and Saputo Dairy Australia have collectively received the 2019 Foodbank Award for their collaboration to fight hunger in Australia.<\/p>\n

Presented at the Food & Grocery Australia conference dinner held by the Australian Food & Grocery Council (AFCG) in Sydney yesterday, Foodbank praised its dairy partners for the extraordinary collaboration with regular contributions on the production of fresh milk to help Foodbank provide relief to more than 710,000 Australians every month.<\/p>\n

Announcing Foodbank\u2019s highest accolade, Foodbank Australia CEO, Brianna Casey, said; \u201cThis prestigious award is presented to an AFGC member or members showing vision, innovation and leadership in partnering with Foodbank to deliver greater impact in providing food and groceries to vulnerable families across Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year, our dairy partners receive the award for what has proven to be an extraordinary eight-year collaboration providing 1 million litres of fresh milk a year. This industry sector program is unique to Australia and sets a benchmark for foodbank\/industry partnerships around the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout the support of generous partners such as these wonderful milk companies, we would simply not be able to assist the millions of Australians accessing food relief from our network of 2,600 charities around the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite facing turbulent industry and market conditions, Parmalat, Lion Dairy & Drinks, Fonterra and Saputo Dairy Australia supply Foodbank with fresh milk in every state and territory each and every week of the year. This allows school students around the country to have milk on their cereal when they sit down at a breakfast club, it enables pensioners to add milk to their cup of tea or coffee at the drop in centre and it provides families with a staple ingredient for meals such as mac and cheese,\u201d Casey explained.<\/p>\n

Also on the night, the Flight Centre Foundation\u2019s General Manager, Anita Russell, was inducted into the Foodbank Hall of Fame. Announcing the induction, Casey said: \u201cAnita has been at the centre of the Flight Centre\/Foodbank relationship since its inception seven years ago. Not only is it an incredibly valuable partnership for Foodbank but, thanks to Anita, it is the north star of corporate engagement.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom workplace giving recruitment drives to \u2018The World\u2019s Biggest Hamper Pack\u2019, Anita has repeatedly challenged and motivated us and her Flight Centre colleagues to do more and achieve more. No idea has ever been too big or too crazy once Anita her applied her \u2018can do\u2019 magic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks to her passion and energy, the relationship has gone from strength to strength such that Flight Centre staff and company have funded 8.2 million serves of long life milk as well as 2.4 million serves of pasta sauce, canned fruit and rice,\u201d Casey said.<\/p>\n

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As a long-standing supporter of Foodbank, the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) provides a platform for Foodbank to present the Annual Foodbank Award at its premier, annual event, Food and Grocery Australia Dinner. Foodbank thanks the AFGC for allowing it to celebrate Foodbank hunger fighters and congratulates its award recipients.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Foodbank’s national milk program and Flight Centre Foundation awarded at AFGC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":12437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,235,236],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-11084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aus","category-media-releases","category-news","tag-media-release"],"acf":[],"formatted_date":"May 31, 2019","raw_html":"

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SYDNEY 30 May 2019:<\/strong> Foodbank\u2019s national milk program partners \u2013 Parmalat, Lion Dairy & Drinks, Fonterra and Saputo Dairy Australia have collectively received the 2019 Foodbank Award for their collaboration to fight hunger in Australia.<\/p>\n

Presented at the Food & Grocery Australia conference dinner held by the Australian Food & Grocery Council (AFCG) in Sydney yesterday, Foodbank praised its dairy partners for the extraordinary collaboration with regular contributions on the production of fresh milk to help Foodbank provide relief to more than 710,000 Australians every month.<\/p>\n

Announcing Foodbank\u2019s highest accolade, Foodbank Australia CEO, Brianna Casey, said; \u201cThis prestigious award is presented to an AFGC member or members showing vision, innovation and leadership in partnering with Foodbank to deliver greater impact in providing food and groceries to vulnerable families across Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year, our dairy partners receive the award for what has proven to be an extraordinary eight-year collaboration providing 1 million litres of fresh milk a year. This industry sector program is unique to Australia and sets a benchmark for foodbank\/industry partnerships around the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout the support of generous partners such as these wonderful milk companies, we would simply not be able to assist the millions of Australians accessing food relief from our network of 2,600 charities around the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cDespite facing turbulent industry and market conditions, Parmalat, Lion Dairy & Drinks, Fonterra and Saputo Dairy Australia supply Foodbank with fresh milk in every state and territory each and every week of the year. This allows school students around the country to have milk on their cereal when they sit down at a breakfast club, it enables pensioners to add milk to their cup of tea or coffee at the drop in centre and it provides families with a staple ingredient for meals such as mac and cheese,\u201d Casey explained.<\/p>\n

Also on the night, the Flight Centre Foundation\u2019s General Manager, Anita Russell, was inducted into the Foodbank Hall of Fame. Announcing the induction, Casey said: \u201cAnita has been at the centre of the Flight Centre\/Foodbank relationship since its inception seven years ago. Not only is it an incredibly valuable partnership for Foodbank but, thanks to Anita, it is the north star of corporate engagement.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom workplace giving recruitment drives to \u2018The World\u2019s Biggest Hamper Pack\u2019, Anita has repeatedly challenged and motivated us and her Flight Centre colleagues to do more and achieve more. No idea has ever been too big or too crazy once Anita her applied her \u2018can do\u2019 magic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks to her passion and energy, the relationship has gone from strength to strength such that Flight Centre staff and company have funded 8.2 million serves of long life milk as well as 2.4 million serves of pasta sauce, canned fruit and rice,\u201d Casey said.<\/p>\n

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As a long-standing supporter of Foodbank, the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) provides a platform for Foodbank to present the Annual Foodbank Award at its premier, annual event, Food and Grocery Australia Dinner. Foodbank thanks the AFGC for allowing it to celebrate Foodbank hunger fighters and congratulates its award recipients.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/section>","ACF":false,"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Milk-Industry-accepts-Foodbank-Award-at-AFGC-1.jpg","author_name":"rebecca@foodbank.org.au","spinnr_header":"default_spinnr_header","spinnr_mobile_menu":"default_spinnr_mobile_menu","spinnr_footer":"default_spinnr_footer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12436,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11084\/revisions\/12436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}