SHASA’s weekly community food program has delivered food to 70+ families in need since the 2019/20 bushfires.
Food / pet food is picked up from Aldi three times a week.
Donations are sorted and packed on Mondays 11.30am to 12.30pm, then distributed SHASA’s electric van from 12:30 to 1pm to 20 clients and the Anglican Parish Red Door Cafe. More food deliveries are made on Wednesdays and Thursdays to the Southern Life Church food pantry.
Donations wanted!
Donations of food / pet food are always welcome. Please drop off your donation to:
Get involved
If you have a Food Program story, can donate your time or food / pet food to the Food Program, email us.
EVAN
Two years ago SHASA secured a grant from Fire to Flourish to purchase an electric van we call EVAN. . Prior to this, all the food collection and distribution for SHASA’s Food / Pet Food Program was all done by volunteers using their own vehicles.
EVAN is a Nissan ENV200 commercial van. It has excellent storage capacity and the boys can easily slide the crates of food in and out. It’s an example of a local story of adaptation.
Our van drivers, Glenn and Bryce use the electric van, EVAN, to pick up food from Aldi three times a week. They deliver food on a Monday to SHASA’s Moruya Food / Pet Food Program and the Anglican Parish Red Door Cafe. On Wednesday and Thursdays they deliver food to the Southern Life Church Pantry.
EVAN is charged off a residential rooftop solar system which was purchased with the Fire to Flourish Grant. Micro Energy Systems was able to reuse solar panels collected by Repurposing for Resilience. By charging EVAN off the electricity created by the sun, running costs are extremely low. By thinking ahead and buying EVAN we have insulated these Moruya food charities from the crippling costs of rising fuel prices.
SHASA’s decision to go electric 2 years ago is a nice little local precedent for any other organisations who make regular deliveries that might be considering making the transition to an electric van
