From Us 2 You Melbourne feeding a deep need

Deborah Henry, far right, and her volunteers have been cooking up meals to feed homeless people. (Damjan Janevski)

Deborah Henry hates to think about people going hungry.

For the past three years, the Epping resident has been delivering home-cooked meals to homeless people living in the CBD.

Her organisation, From Us 2 You Melbourne, travels to Batman Park to provide home-cooked meals for up to 50 people every Monday and Wednesday and runs a barbecue every second Sunday.

Ms Henry and her three cooks create batches of slow-cooker meals and a “band” of volunteers helps distribute the meals.

“I love helping others – it keeps me going,” she said.

“I’ve missed family functions because of it, but I can’t let the guys go hungry in the city.”

Ms Henry said her experience working at a refuge following the Kilmore bushfire inspired her to make meals for homeless people.

She said that the number of people looking for a meal had grown in recent times, with a barbecue on January 28 drawing 70 people.

“There is a lot of new people but at least they had full stomachs,” she said. “It is the least I can do.”

Ms Henry also prepares food hampers she distributes from home to local families in need on Thursdays and Fridays.

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