FUTURE FEED: Lurking, Watching & Commenting

As we all know, food is huge. And also as we know, some us us have more difficulty fitting in than others. And in these straitened times, the people on the margins get cast on the scrapheap pretty fast. What some people have realised is that using food and eating is a great way to tackle issues of discrimination and bigotry that exist across our fair land.

Here’s a couple of great stories from Melbourne, one of the world’s most humane cities.

The Madcap Cafe assists people with mental illness to skill up, get out, and achieve some skills and dignity.

The Sorghum Sisters works with and trains refugee women from the Horn of Africa, and runs the school canteen at a Melbourne Primary School.