Foodcare Orange customers have backed plans for the organisation to move to a more central location.
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Foodcare is considering moving out of the Glenroi Community Centre in Garema Road because a lack of public transport is making it difficult for people to get to.
Kelly Beckett, who was at the centre on Tuesday, said she hoped it moved to a CBD location.
“It would be better to be able to do all of the shopping together,” she said.
Miss Beckett said it created a problem having to do some shopping in the CBD and some at Glenroi.
“I come here once a week, twice a week, depending on what I need,” she said.
“It is good because I live near here but I am moving.”
Lisa Kennedy also said a shift would be good.
“I want it to be in town,” she said.
Mrs Kennedy said it should be part of her usual shopping.
“I’ve got to come home and go back out again,” she said.
Mrs Kennedy said Foodcare was a valuable service for her family.
“Coming to Woolworths and Coles I just can’t afford them.
Foodcare Orange president Anne Hopwood said some people in need were not using the Foodcare service because they could not afford to travel there.
“We’d like to be more central. We would be more accessible to people in the CBD,” she said.
“I’ve had people say to me ‘the only way I can get to you is to catch a cab.”
Ms Hopwood said she was also pleased the federal government had reversed a plan to cut funding to Foodbank Australia.
On Tuesday at Foodcare Orange, Foodbank Australia suppliers Manildra Group and MSM Milling celebrated providing ingredients to make 51 million meals across Australia over the past 14 years.
Foodbank Australia general manager national supply chain Michael Davidson said it was grateful.
“Manildra Group and MSM Milling source the wheat and canola from the local area, handle the milling and consolidation locally and help people in the local area with the finished products from the program distributed via our network of front line charities,” he said.
Manildra Group Manildra Flour Mill production manager Tony Fitzpatrick said it was proud to donate local flour and sugar to the program.
MSM Milling site manager James Karbowiak said it provided thousands of litres of canola oil every year and he had volunteered at Foodcare Orange.
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