Australian Fair Food Forum

Offering: voluntary help for 3 days a week from an ex-student in FoodPerspectives

Dear Fair Food Lovers,

I’d like to offer 3 days of help as a volunteer in the fair food sector!
Why do I offer this?
Since my study abroad at La Trobe in Food perspectives (nutritional, anthropological and gastronomical) my interest, excitement and curiosity in this area keeps growing and I hope to be of help to others with my gained knowledge and experience and at the same time learning more about fair food and the system behind it.
How do I do this?
The coming couple of months I’d like to dedicate about 3 days a week to volunteering. At the moment I am also a teamplayer at Youth Food Movement Melbourne.
What could I do?
The work could be very practical: helping out on a market, event, farm etc., at the same time helping with research or communications is something I’d like to help with (I have a degree in Communications)

A little bit more about me: I am originally from the Netherlands and after I got my degree in Communications I moved to Melbourne (about 8 months ago) to do a semester abroad and learn more about the different perspectives on food. I loved the semester and I am loving the foodvibe here in Melbourne, therefore I am not going home yet and hope to do and learn more about this here in Australia!

Hopefully via this forum we can get in contact and create a fruitful collaboration :slight_smile::seedling:!
Thankyou already for any ideas and suggestions.

Warm regards,
Simone

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Hi Simone - such a generous offer! What kind of work would you most like to do? Or which part of the food system are you most keen to learn about? And how long do you want to volunteer for?

Wow! So many options for your @simoneluijckx

As Jen asked - do you want practical work, or are you looking for change making computer based innovations?

I can suggest a few options - once I know what you are looking for! Always looking for good practical help!

Carolyn

Hi @carolyn,
Thanks for your reply! I got in touch with @Jen and got the opportunity to work for Open Food Network :slight_smile: So that’s what I am doing right now, next to other voluntary work. Got a good amount of days now working with fair food! Anyway, still happy you responded and see the forum works for these job searches :wink:

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Fabulous! @openfoodnetwork needs your help! And we can all benefit from that!

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