dnata catering, Australia’s largest air services provider, has shown its support to local charities and causes in Australia during COVID-19 through the donation of food items. This coincides with its longstanding partnership with leading food rescue charity, OzHarvest.
Since March of this year, dnata catering has continued to donate excess food destined for inflight services on a weekly basis, with up to 500,000 food items received so far. This has resulted in more than 160,000 meals for several charities and causes across the country.
In New South Wales, dnata catering has donated 16,291kg, totalling 48,873 meals to OzHarvest, Lifesource Community Care, New Horizons Homeless Care, Sydney Children’s Hospital in Randwick and the Children’s Hospital in Westmead.
In Queensland, dnata catering has donated 10,795kg, totalling 32,385 meals to OzHarvest and Foodbank.
In Victoria, dnata catering has donated 10,034kg totalling 30,102 meals to OzHarvest, Brimbank Anglican Church and Anglicare Emergency Food Relief Shelters Victoria.
In Western Australia, dnata catering has donated 8,002kg, totalling 24,006 meals to OzHarvest.
In South Australia, dnata catering has donated 5,434kg, totalling 16,302 meals to OzHarvest and Foodbank.
In the ACT, dnata catering has donated 1,148kg, totalling 3,444 meals to OzHarvest.
Hiranjan Aloysius, Chief Executive Officer from dnata catering said: “With a strong desire to help our people and others in need, we reached out to our charity partners to donate food items and pre-prepared meals, while also creating hampers and meals for our employees. We will continue our efforts to make a positive impact through initiatives such as food donations and look forward to continuing to work closely with our partners in Australia. Unfortunately, we had to make the difficult decision to stand down a portion of our employees and as an organisation we are very conscious of the impact the recent situation can have on families across Australia. In spite of difficult times, dnata remains committed to supporting all of the communities in which we operate and helping those in need.”
Since 2015, dnata catering has donated over 877,000 meals to OzHarvest that helps not only reduce food waste and environmental impact, but also helps communities, schools and organisations in need.
Ronni Kahn, CEO and Founder of OzHarvest said: “We are incredibly grateful to dnata catering for their ongoing support. Thanks to their generous food donations, we have been able to deliver more than 140,000 meals since March this year to people in need across Australia.”
In addition to donations for OzHarvest, dnata catering’s network of 15 Australian production facilities distributed a multitude of food items to local Australian food charities, children’s hospitals, religious organisations, homeless shelters and others in need. These include:
- Foodbank
- Lifesource Community Care, Sydney
- New Horizons Homeless Care, Sydney
- Sydney Childrens Hospital in Randwick, Sydney
- The Children’s Hospital in Westmead, Sydney
- Brimbank Anglican Church, Victoria
- Anglicare Emergency Food Relief Shelters, Victoria
dnata offers services in ground handling, cargo, catering and travel in 35 countries worldwide, and services more than 300 airlines. In Australia, this includes Emirates and codeshare partner, Qantas.
