Season 3, Episode 5. Amy Blaine Talks Community Food

Amy Blaine. Photo: Julie Boulton

Amy Blaine is a co-founder and volunteer for the Ainslie Community Pantry. She’s passionate about meeting the needs of the local community through building social networks that share and distribute food, seeing food as an integral part of our social fabric.

In this episode, Fiona and Julie are blown away by Amy’s endless enthusiasm for the work she does. Listen to Amy talk about increased demand for the services of the street pantries and the incredible volunteers who are working with her to deliver a service that really shows how to build a community and care for each other. 

“Anyone can go along and drop food and drop off donations and anyone can go and access food. So it's a nonjudgmental space.”

“I'm motivated by going. ‘People shouldn't be hungry’. And if everyone's focused on, let's have no one being hungry. It would shift the mentality of food waste.”

Fiona, Julie and Amy with recording set up, Canberra Environment Centre Office, Gungaderra Homestead.