December 2024

Catering for Good Case Study | Meals with Impact

Workplaces & Tertiary education Food industry Implementing healthy changes Promoting healthy eating

Overview

Meals with Impact empowers women from migrant and refugee backgrounds by providing inclusive training and paid employment in their cafe, food relief services, and catering business. With a goal to offer equitable opportunities for meaningful work and address skill shortages in industries while combatting discrimination. Meals with Impact are proudly listed on the Catering for Good Directory. Watch the below case study to learn more.

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Do you need a caterer for your next workplace function?

The Catering for Good Directory has catering options that are good for people, good for the environment, and good for the community.

Meet certified social enterprise Meals with Impact.

Meals with Impact creates pathways for meaningful work for women of migrant and refugee backgrounds.

Too often, the incredible skills of these women are overlooked. They are resilient, adaptable, and bring rich traditions and cultures to share.

Our goal is to showcase their talents and help them build meaningful careers.

Our catering service provides employment opportunities, on-the-job training, customer service skills building, and the development of the necessary expertise for the catering industry.

Ultimately, at Meals with Impact, we believe catering can be more than delicious, nutritious food.

Our catering combines social impact with sustainability and quality.

Our team co-designs meals with recipes from home, ensuring culturally appropriate and diverse cuisines for your workplace.

We provide hands-on training and paid employment, creating pathways for future meaningful work.

We also pride ourselves on sourcing high-quality seasonal produce and on minimising food waste as much as possible.

We are a passionate team that loves to share our stories and build connections through our love of food.

Our mission is to empower women from migrant and refugee backgrounds to find and maintain employment.

By ordering from Meals with Impact, you’re not only getting delicious, nutritious, culturally appropriate food, but also helping to create equitable opportunities for meaningful work.

Together, we can make a difference.

Find us and other amazing caterers on the Catering for Good Directory.


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