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Despite the organisation’s swift growth, Christie-David says there’s much more to be done, as food insecurity throughout Australian communities becomes more acute. With a goal to sustainably fund around 200,000 meal donations each year and employ more than 100 people from marginalised communities, his sights are set on upping the number of restaurants in the group to 10 in the next few years.
Despite the momentum in the sector, Terry admits social entrepreneurs, particularly those whose mission is to create jobs for people experiencing disadvantage, face an extra set of challenges compared with traditional entrepreneurs. The greatest of these, he says, is the need to fund the ‘wrap-around supports’ for the people they employ and to find landlords willing to lease them spaces to operate.
Like most of the items in her modest wardrobe, Camilla Schippa knows a lot about the origins of her most recently purchased garment, a pair of black straight-legged pants covered in bold copper-coloured swirls. “A lady called Sejal painted these curls as part of a bigger project in one of the art workshops we ran in Western Sydney,” says the chief executive of fashion based social enterprise, The Social Outfit, where the pants are part of the current collection.
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