Meals On Wheels Crisis: What’s Really Going On

Meals on Wheels has been a vital lifeline helping our most vulnerable Aussies for more than 70 years, and it is now on the brink of collapse, with some branches two weeks away from closing.
Chair of Meals on Wheels Australia Paul Sadler explains.
#MealsOnWheels #Australia #Charity

[@basdfgwe]

The fact that this is the service that people have to depend on more than than their families is dire reflection of our society.

[@FTY13]

Not everybody is a Brady bunch family there are many people that don't have families or are to far away . Also being a volunteer organisation they're not getting any new people in because everyone's too busy playing

[@sickntired553]

Yeah exactly, bit different in the olden days, the better days when mum could afford to stay home. This is a govt caused crisis, just like almost if not every issue. 😢​@@FTY13

[@cassieoz1702]

​@FTY13 and not everyone is within reasonable proximity. My neighbour's elderly father lives somewhere with no work available. Between that and a teen in critical last year of high school, the family just cannot relocate and Grandpa refuses to consider it.

[@sickntired553]

@@cassieoz1702 absolutely ♥️

[@rob9340]

Yay! Go Austraya! What a wonderful future this country is heading in. What a fantastic future for our youth to look forward to. A life of debt, high taxes for nothing and a future where living a simple life in your own house is very difficult, if not impossible. A great way to really build a next generation of people that want to volunteer and serve this country. Homeless taxpayers, homeless fully employed. It is disgusting and disgraceful that this wealthy country has come to this. First home buyers can't, as mortgage repayments too much. Renters can't. Rent is too much. Let alone food, utilities and fuel increases. To be be frank it looks like Australia is becoming a nation of can'ts. It used to be a country of great possibilities. Like it or not the next generation of this country will be the next policy and law makers. They will not treat us older generations well in the coming years, if this is the legacy we leave behind.

[@ThisisstillMYROOM.]

EXACTLY SPOT ON , one hundred percent. My thirty year old daughter STILL lives at home !!! She works but there is no way she could even afford to rent privately. We are fast becoming a third world country, it’s only going to become unbearable in the years to come …………. We were once considered the lucky country !! I am increasingly missing the eras I grew up in. 😢😢😢😢😢

[@adiintel1]

I'm 34 I rent privately it seems to be getting harder out there though.

[@multioptioned]

​@@ThisisstillMYROOM.Australia was never "the lucky country". That was a criticism not a compliment. Read the book the mis interpretation comes from 😮

[@ThisisstillMYROOM.]

@@multioptioned It was back in the day in the sixties etc. EVERYONE that wanted a Job could find employment. Dad went to work , mum stayed home and did all the cooking, cleaning etc. in the seventies and eighties Dad managed to save , we always had enough food, toys and we had six acres with cows. We had cubby houses, bikes, trampolines etc and so forth. People could survive on just one income and be comfortable. So sorry but you are WRONG. SURE THERE WERE SOME TOUGH TIMES : BUT way back then , if one didn’t work , they didn’t eat !!! There weren’t the handouts that there are today and if one was prepared to work you could get ahead. A completely different story today , it’s troublesome times we are living in these days, and it’s only going to get worse……

[@jkauran1262]

before you scoff at this please ask the council for the cost of the meals and menu at your local council ,6 years ago it cost over 100 dollars for 5 meals provided to clients that were just brown slush very thin watery substance , the people that receive these meals do pay for these meals fully .volunteers do deliver the meals. This is by no means a free meal for the recipient . The subsidies are for the business that provides the meal (the provider of service) and not the recipient. Try to volunteer and see for yourself you might just be amazed. All these stories are just perception. The people receiving and paying for the meals are providing a service to the community ( jobs for the food provider service that sources the meals , the Kitchen factory, the cooks , the packers . and paying for it in full. Just go see then you will know.Its all revenue back to the council , and govenrment. Nothing is free, everything comes at costs and its always user pays, one way or another.

[@vickiemoran9349]

Meals on Wheels is an astounding service. I wish them well.

[@Wattle-t5i]

The government should be ashamed an essential service like this goes under plus alot of elderly are to old or ill to cook for themselves to or get to a shop alot cant walk far or dive to get food

[@adiintel1]

@@Wattle-t5i dive?

[@FTY13]

There's no votes in old people unfortunately

[@LynMurray-j1z]

Typical government isn’t aware of cost of food that everyday Australians have to pay

[@FTY13]

Of course they know how much food costs it's just that Woolworths and Coles is more powerful than the government

[@angelinam6855]

There are grants available- they should allocate some of the funds to this.

[@FTY13]

It doesn't matter if they got a million dollars every week there's no volunteers because adults won't stop playing

[@greekre]

tell them to put up a pride flag and the government will give them a 50,000 "grant"

[@FTY13]

@@greekre maybe if you weren't so hateful to people that were born differently they wouldn't need action groups. How can you seriously attack someone who had no choice in the situation that's what I want to know

[@greekre]

@@FTY13 take control of yourself

[@travelwithdebandnick]

This is shattering. They have to keep this service up and running. This is some peoples life line, this breaks my heart to hear this 😢

[@AnthonyGarlic-tr9br]

This is a great 👍 charity 😀💕❤️💜

[@graemewilliams6150]

We used to have a Meals on Wheels Service all over the UK. It was run by our Local Authorities (Councils). But they sadly cut that service at least 20 years ago.

[@ReginaMolloy]

The fact the labour and transport is volunteer and free in the true blue way, the government must provide more $, imagine if it was a paid service by the government, the price would be $50/meal and then more taxes for us to pay .....

[@punnia123]

Meals on wheels is so unaffordable that someone on pension cannot even afford 7 days of meals. The basic level is so basic that's it's just not worth it.

[@lynettejwhite]

I don't understand why they can not make this service work? I can order premade meals from lots of different providers delivered to my door, at around the government subsidy price of $13.50 per meal and with dietary choices considered (ie youfoodz, chefgood, we feed you, dineamic - just to name a few). If the add on of the welfare check and community social aspect is all done by volunteers, how is that costing them more?

[@Igu.101]

In most states each service is independent, meaning they dont benefit from economies of scale. A huge part of the cost is the production cost of meals, which benefits massively from scale. It's primarily a failure of the structure

[@isabelkassan5244]

This is an emergency! Do not let this cry for help go unheeded! Donations cash to ..?…

[@SimoneShaw-fy2zm]

Not enough people care about most vulnerable

[@karenvecsei4217]

God save Australia

[@Ausshops]

I would like them to do something similar to the Red Shield appeal each year.

[@louisebb4183]

Meals on wheels in Victoria

[@FTY13]

Was there any ending to the sentence ?

[@jeffsmart7674]

So Albo stop sending our tax money to Island nations for cricket teams etc, spend money on our people now

[@SimoneShaw-fy2zm]

Why don't someone volunteer to donate or raise funds selfish Gen X and millennials poor genz baby boomer and alpha don't got a chance too much competition with no enough help and support just gonna let the old die WE ARE ALL STILL HUMAN NO MATTER THE AGE / ABILITY 💔

[@trash-girl84]

i used to help my grandmother with her Meals on Wheels route when i was little! i LOVED it!

[@AngelaVlahos]

I love germany, but they never seem to disperse or give back to community

[@sickntired553]

Bout time NDIS steps up

[@galegrazutis964]

This has nothing to do with the NDIS

[@sickntired553]

@@galegrazutis964 Durr

[@sickntired553]

@@galegrazutis964 no but it should, Australia I mean

[@tinyspeckofdust37]

Australian business are simply falling apart, what happened to Australia…

[@KFBbythesea]

You vill own nutink and be happy. Its coming fast. Resist the nwo. Resist

[@thatswhatisaid8908]

Many people would be happy to have a roof over their head and 3 square meals a day. Many more would be happy if they could see their family once in a while. And yet many others would be happy if they could just get their homes decluttered. Stuff isn't everything. It's just stuff.

[@Vesna-vj7hv]

Give Billions of dollars for this as it is our money and these people worked for some of that money .And Not send it to Ukraine to support a war on humanity,Stop giving our money to other Countries especially for Wars