Project Name:
Rotary Cairns West Manoora Breakfast Club – 2026 School Year Food Relief Project (RACG)
Country:
Australia
Description:
The Rotary Club of Cairns West Breakfast Club is a volunteer‑run, compassionate food relief program operating every school day at the Manoora Neighbourhood Centre in partnership with Centrecare FNQ. The program provides free, nutritious breakfasts to disadvantaged school‑aged children who would otherwise begin their school day hungry or without access to food. This RACG application seeks funding to provide direct food relief for the last two terms of the 2026 school year. Our program has rapidly grown and is on track to triple in attendance from term one 2026. This program is now supplying lunches to children every day in addition to breakfast. Over 30 attendees to the program every day, equating to over 1,500 per school term.
Funding will be used to purchase breakfast food for daily delivery to vulnerable children living in Manoora and surrounding areas — a community characterised by extremely high public housing concentration, entrenched poverty, high Indigenous unemployment, social trauma, and food insecurity. The Breakfast Club is operated solely by volunteers from the Rotary Club of Cairns West and runs from 7.30am to 8.30am every school day
Tax Deductibility:
Rotary Australia Benevolent Society (Managed by RAWCS) has Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) registration and has been listed as a Charitable Fund so we can accept tax deductible Donations from individuals or organisations.