Food Truck Delivers Food To The Homeless

As part of its Veilomani programme, the Fiji Food Truck has now taken a different approach.

Parked at Albert Park on the pavilion side, the nutritious fast-food restaurant has begun delivering food packs to homeless people around the Suva vicinity.

Manager, Randall Kamea said: “It was a big decision to share it on social media as we don’t really do these things for attention but we thought it would be good to raise awareness about the social problem of homelessness.

“The numbers are quite big in Suva and for a small island and city I don’t think it should be as bad as it is,” he said.

The team was proactive after Cyclone Ana hit in the past weekend delivering chicken pies and chocolate milkshakes on Sunday afternoon around Suva.

The initiative is funded through their favorite ice tea that the food truck sells.

“The ice tea on our menu is quite popular as the weather is hot so one dollar from every ice tea sold goes to making meals for those in need,” Mr Kamea said.

“Once our menu for them is ready, we drop it off before lunch while dinner is dropped off after work around 5pm or 6pm,” he said.

Mr Kamea said, “If anyone out there wants to lend a hand with regard to delivery or you know someone or an organisation that is doing something similar to this, we would love to join hands and work together in touching the lives of those homeless people

He hopes to involve business houses and churches int the initiative.

“If we could use a church hall that is located in Central Suva that would be great because the homeless would be able to sit and be served with proper utensils that we can bring in instead of using paper plates every day,” he said.

Edited by Selita Rabuku

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