A volunteer-run community movement which started out in Wyndham four years ago has since provided more than 250,000 breakfast meals to school students across the state.
Let’s Feed was started by Tarneit resident Jasvinder Sidhu and former Wyndham deputy mayor Marie Brittan, with assistance from the Wyndham Community & Education Centre chief executive officer Jennie Barrera and former Wyndham councillor Bob Fairclough.
In 2013, they established the first Let’s Feed school breakfast club program at Baden Powell College in Hoppers Crossing.
Ms Brittan said she and Mr Sidhu started the breakfast program after finding out that teachers at some schools were using their own money to buy children breakfast.
Nowadays there are a total of 20 Let’s Feed breakfast clubs schools in Victoria, including 10 in Wyndham, which serve two meals per week to around 1200 children.
Mr Sidhu said Let’s Feed used fundraising, donations and small grants to purchase food for schools.
“With my personal ethics, what I enjoy most is giving back to the community,” Mr Sidhu said.
He also thanked Geelong Football Club for its “very generous” support across the past four years.
