Feed Our Medics - North Shore
Update: Thanks to our wonderful community's support (you!) we have been able to deliver 4 batches of meals to our at risk medics on throughout April and May. We are also helping 4 local businesses to stay afloat. If you would like to help your local medics and local businesses, please buy them a $10 lunch. 100% of your donation goes to support local businesses and local workers.
Here is a recent Channel Nine News story about the work we have done featuring Royal North Shore Hospital on 1st May 2020 .
Thank you for helping frontline workers and local businesses feel supported.
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We know that our medics on the North Shore (Hornsby Hospital, the SAN and Royal North Shore Hospital) are working long hours in risky conditions to help patients fight the highly infectious coronavirus.
These medics have trouble getting to the shops, have bare shelves at supermarkets, and find it a big mental load to order and meal plan so far in advance when they are reading up about how to protect themselves and care for others with this new virus.
They can't just buy from any café and put themselves at risk of community transmission of covid-19 that they are so hyper-vigilantly avoiding at work. Even if they wanted to, many of the cafés have closed. Many good, selfless staff, are having trouble accessing a good nutritious meal that will support them through these long shifts. And it's only the beginning.
We are raising money to help feed our health care workers by engaging HACCP certified, covid-food-prep-trained local cafes, restaurants and catering companies who are also seeing hard times. Helping both industries is a WIN WIN!
And who doesn't love a care package, when you've been working on the front line of an unprecedented pandemic?
We have spoken with local HACCP certified, covid-food-prep-trained chefs, cooks and caterers, who have advised for $10 a medic we could provide them with a hygienic, nutritious , filling meal for their lunch or dinner to help them through their shift.
North Shore Hospitals we want to help
Tired medics have reached out to us from:
- Royal North Shore Hospital
- Hornsby Hospital
- the SAN
...and we'd like to gift them some support, prepared by a local covid-certified cafe or restaurant, supported by North Shore families.
Let’s join together to help our health care professionals stay fed so they can continue to help our community fight this virus.
Thank you
#Joeline Hackman, Lizzie Wall, Stevie Hooper, and Juliette Flanagan#
We are just locals who are keen to help support our local health care workers during this pandemic.
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As seen in the Sunday Telegraph Be Kind section on 5th April, 2020. Thank you for your support. Read the full article.
Donate to our other campaigns local to you, to support local businesses and local healthcare workers:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/feed-our-medics-Sydney-city-eastern-suburbs
https://www.gofundme.com/f/feed-a-medic-north-shore-rns-nsp-san-hornsby
https://www.gofundme.com/f/feed-our-medics-rpa
https://www.gofundme.com/f/feed-our-medics-australia
Other hospitals and locations coming soon.
Corporate donations get some extra recognition. Please donate here! https://www.gofundme.com/f/feed-our-medics-australia-wide