WAMFVA gives a truck, and you can too!
Not all heroes wear capes; a lot of them in fact, wear scrubs and we owe a debt of gratitude to our frontline emergency workers.
The ones who go to work every day even though it’s scary.
The ones who care for and heal our sick.
Who put their own health at risk to show up and do what needs to be done – using their super powers for the benefit of the community.
The emergency workers we know don’t want praise or applause – so it’s hard to show them how much they mean to us.
Well, forget that – the WAMFVA has found a way that all of us can get involved and help fuel our emergency workers AND help support our favourite food trucks.
And it couldn’t be more simple!
What it is
Buy-A-Meal is a way for you to purchase a coffee, a sweet treat or a snack for our frontline emergency workers, online via the WAFMVA website.
How do I get involved?
Simply choose what you want to buy and follow the steps on the Buy-A-Meal website. The WAMFA will do the rest!
1. Local community members can visit buyameal.com.au where they are able to make a donation
2. These donations will facilitate local food trucks parking outside hospitals and providing free meals for healthcare workers
3. The workers will be able to use an app to see which food trucks are at their hospital, select their meal and, using the magic of technology, pick up their freshly cooked meal while still practicing social distancing
4. Each food truck will have an allocation of 100 donated meals then PAYG after until dishes run out.
Workers have the choice to use a discount code to receive the donated meal or if they prefer to just pay, they can.
If, at the end of the shift, the food truck still has an allocation left of ‘donated meals’, these will be provided to homeless shelters and similar organisations.
Who is the WAMFA?
The West Australian Mobile Food Vendors Association is the first mobile food vendors advocacy group created in Western Australia in 2016 for the new and exciting gourmet food vendors industry.
They have over 220 mobile businesses as members – which probably includes some of your favourite food trucks.
What is the story behind Buy-A-Meal?
Todd Kempton, President of WAMFVA, says Buy-A-Meal allows the community to actively utilise the resources of local vendors (who have heavily been negatively impacted by COVID-19), by fuelling healthcare workers during their shifts.
“The community support for healthcare workers has been incredible. The managers we have spoken to at hospitals have explained how ‘care packages’ are continually showing up to provide essentials for staff. While these donations have the best intentions, the scattered approach has led to more work where resources are already scarce.
What our hospitals need is a well planned approach which provides frontline staff with a physical and mental boost, while having a minimal operational impact,”
“Buy-A-Meal comes together to support people at the frontline who don’t have the opportunity to think about their next meal. This is our chance to unite as a community to fuel our healthcare workers at the same time as supporting our local vendors. Let’s bond together to show the best of humanity.”
It’s win-win!
Think about that $5 a day you aren’t spending at the coffee shop on your way into work.
Now think how warm and fuzzy you’ll feel knowing a nurse, paramedic, doctor, cleaner or the countless other staff that keep hospitals running are adequately fuelled – and know how much we appreciate them!
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