Hospitals are closing their doors to homemade food donations from the general public for safety reasons. So I’m raising funds to provide nourishing meals to overworked frontline healthcare workers and putting some much needed revenue into local businesses approved by hospital authorities. #ShoutAMeal
16 April Update – 7 days in, $39,106 raised, 5,000 foods delivered to 13 hospitals!! Read more and see photos here, down in the Updates section. ❤️
Over 100 healthcare workers around the world have died from COVID-19, caring for those of us in need. I want to say thank you to our frontliners.
On Thursday 2 April 2020, I sent 250 muffins to the Westmead Hospital in Sydney as a small token of my appreciation to healthcare workers in the frontline, battling the COVID-19 war at great personal risk to themselves.
The next day, I sent 1,000 muffins to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Liverpool, Concord, Hornsby and Royal North Shore Hospital. Dozer shouted coffee for everyone in the Emergency Department at Canterbury Hospital, and arranged for lunch to be sent to the COVID Ward at Mona Vale Hospital.
And this week, I have 100 meals ordered to be delivered to the high-work-level wards of Westmead Hospital (COVID, ICU, Emergency), to be distributed to those who need it the most. Those who don’t have a hot meal waiting for them when they get home after a 15 hour shift. Those who have moved out of home to protect their loved ones.
I don’t want to stop.
And thus, Shout A Meal was born.
THE MISSION #ShoutAMeal
To provide delicious, nourishing food to our frontline healthcare workers in Sydney, and support local businesses struggling to stay afloat.
GOAL
To raise $210,000 to provide 500 meals per day for 6 weeks to frontline healthcare workers, and provide some much needed revenue into the hospitality industry.
$10 meals x 500 healthcare workers x 7 days x 6 weeks = $210,000
(PS I secretly hope I can raise much more to provide more meals and more business to locals)
Got questions about how it will all work, and around food safety? Good! Read the FAQ’s.
Shout a Meal for our healthcare heroes
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$10 buys a meal for 1 healthcare worker
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$50 buys a meal for 5 healthcare workers
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$100 provides meals for a team of 10 workers
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$500 will be dinner for a small emergency department
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$2,000 provides meals for a small COVID Ward for a week
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Only have a dollar? Healthcare workers are touched by any and every gesture, no matter how big or small. ❤️
HOSPITALS AND RESTAURANTS
Sydney Hospitals – please complete this form to request free meals.
Sydney Restaurants and caterers – please complete this form to participate.
To wrap things up, just sharing a couple of notes I received from hospital workers after I sent over the muffins. I treasure each and every one of them.
Thank you for reading, and please stay safe.
Thinking of you all – Nagi x
Life of Dozer
And finishing on a lighter note – no face mask could have prepared me for that moment when a bit of his food flew into my mouth as I mixed up his homemade breakfast 🤢
This is wonderful, Nagi! My husband is a dr on the front lines in NY. We had a bunch of pizzas delivered to his department yesterday and everyone was so grateful. They are working non-stop. And thanks also for your recipes–I am making them every day at home.
Thank goodness for people like him Danielle! ❤️
Very worthy cause, and great project! We’d sent a truck to Boston yesterday to get a load of hand sanitizer to distribute to Baystate Medical Center, and UMass/Amherst, Amherst College, and Smith College, because our region has been so short on supplies. It’s been tough times for first responders and food banks also. Donations of all kinds are so important now, especially for overwhelmed front line health workers and their support staff.
Nagi,
What a great idea, and a huge way to help. Although we can’t be there with the front line workers to help this is a great way to do so. We send a big thank you all who are putting their life in danger while being under so much stress each day. A million times over a huge big thank you!
Thank you Bonnie!! N x
Hi Nagi, you’ll definitely succeed in your goal, you’ve got us behind you remember that! Thanks so much for giving us such a warm, practical way to show our support to the medical community (over)working to keep us alive. You’re the best!
Thanks for the kind words Kit ❤️
Hi Nagi, I’m a health care worker in Canada and love your website. Wish I was a recipient of your wonderful cooking. Keep up the good work. We need more caring people like you!
Thanks so much Carina – N x
Thank you Nagi for organizing this outreach in your community. The heroes you are feeding need every bit of support. I donated because you are a “go-to” for me as I navigate this thing I call cooking. Take care of yourself. Rita Wilson Austin Texas
Thanks so much for your generosity Rita! N x
Remember to take care of yourself too. We are in our 3rd week of isolation and your efforts are much appreciated..:
Thanks so much Barbara! N x
Yay Nagi! I think it’s wonderful! Our school donated lunch for a local health clinic. It was a win, win for all! We helped support a local caterer who was donating lunches to our school and showed health care workers how much we appreciated them. They were so surprised and very thankful! We all need to support each other, we’re in it together!
You’re totally right CB!! N x
I live in Georgia, USA, and keep reading about our first responders and medical people. I am thinking of trying something like this in our area because this is definitely a way to take care of each other. Do you have any tips on getting started?
You are such a generous, considerate lady. God bless you.
Yes definitely something that should be an initiative around the world Lisa! N x
I love this idea and have just donated. It is hard to know how to help during these times so thank goodness for wonderful people like you. I am really grateful that you have such an amazing platform to spread the love.
It’s the least I can do – these people are out there risking their health! N x
Nagi this is a beautiful idea, I am a nurse here in Darwin and these gestures mean the absolute world to all of us right now!
Keep up the good work and thank you for making life that much better with your wonderful recipes! Xx
Oh that’s wonderful to hear Claire, thank you for everything that you do!!! N x
NOOO!!!
I can’t believe you’re doing this!
Upset by the consumerism your website is showing during the Covid-19 virus.
Pls stop Nagi
Love you & your recipes, but enough…
you know if it bothers you, you are free to not read the post.
Gonda – it’s not consumerism. There is no other option. Most hospitals no longer permit food donations from the public. It HAS to come from a professional source with official food safety qualifications. I have spent tens of hours on the phone to hospitals. I repeat, I have no choice.
God bless you Nagi for your research and the time to find the facts of what can truly help these frontline doctors, nurses and first responders. Thank you Nagi
I always steer away from arguments on social media… but I think your response is rather mean-spirited and undeserved. I don’t see how supporting local businesses and health workers who are having a rough time can be called “consumerism”. Anyway, you are clearly in the minority here – and surely free just to search for the recipes if the “consumerism” bothers you.
Hi Nagi, I have a son and his wife both being Paramedics, but in different stations out here in the western districts. I have made up a few casseroles and each time they divert past my home on their way to work they’ve collected them and taken them to their place of work. So, you and I are on the same page here just doing our little bit for our hero’s as they’re having to face the stress of this epidemic every day. My son and daughter-in-law have 3 littlies to then go home and contend with trying to live as normal a life as possible. Hubby and I are not allowed (by law) to go out and help them either, si it’s good that they are on opposite shifts doing their 12-15 hour days work. God bless them ALL.
I’m very proud of you too in getting this “Go Fund Me” together for ALL medical staff as they’re “ON THE FRONTLINE”.
That’s so lovely of you Josephine, but what a terrible situation to not be able to help. Stay healthy and safe Josephine, and thank you to your son and wife for everything that they do! N x
So happy to donate Nagi, what you do daily with recipes is amazing, but this is a wonderful way to support our frontline health force. Thanks so much. I’m honoured to be part of your fundraising. Thanks for all you do. (And to Dozer for bringing a daily smile) 😊 Kate xx
Thank you so much Kate, your words of encouragement mean so much. I was so nervous doing this, I’ve never done anything like it before. It takes courage to put yourself out there like that! N xx
I like it. I’ve just donated.
Thank you thank you thank you Sandra. You are wonderful – N xx
You’re a hero too Nagi, you have a heart of gold.
It’s easy to be brave when you’re sitting behind a keyboard 🙂 But our frontliners? That’s the real deal. N xx
Nagi, you are such an inspiration! I’m more than happy to donate to this wonderful cause. Love from, A Kitchen Goddess (all thanks to you) ❤️
You are an angel May! Thank you thank you – N xx
Just donated Nagi, and so glad this supports both hospital staff AND the hospitality industry. You’re a star ⭐️ as always, and a generous soul ❤️
And you too Lee-Ann, thank you so much for your kind donation! N xx
Thank you for the love and generosity you’re showing Nagi. I will donate now ❤️
Thank you for your generosity Mirelle. It will be ever so appreciated by our frontliners! N xx
Thank you for what you’re doing! Such an amazing person!
Thank you for helping me feed my family as well!
I’m so glad you are enjoying the recipes Michelle! Thank you for your lovely message – N xx