Take part in the ASRC's annual Feast for Freedom

The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre's (ASRC) Feast for Freedom is back from March 31 to April 30 this year. 

Now in its seventh year, the Feast gives you the chance to cook a cuisine you mightn’t have experimented with before, and the excuse to host your loved ones for a meal all in the name of raising funds for the ASRC. Recipes for the Feast are generously gifted by refugees and local chefs.

This year's Feast will feature recipes by Jane, a Malaysian-Tamil local who'll share her family's delicious Indian recipes and Lidys and Jose from Colombia, who together are bringing rich, vibrant Colombian flavours to Aussie tables. 

The initiative also welcomes two exciting guests this year: chef Kishwar Chowdhury (who you might recognize from Masterchef Australia) and Kon Karapanagiotidis OAM, ASRC’s CEO and founder, who'll be respectively sprinkling some Bangladeshi and Greek recipes into the mix. We're ready to cook up a storm!

You can register to host a feast via the website. The ASRC will email you a personal fundraising page and send you a hosting kit that includes all of the recipes and the stories of the chefs behind them. All that's left to do is plan your dishes, invite your guests and host your Feast for Freedom. 

The funds raised will enable the ASRC to provide food, shelter, healthcare and other vital services to over 7,000 people seeking asylum every year. Since 2019, more than 4,500 people across Australia have hosted a Feast for Freedom raising over $2 million.

Find out more and register now at the Feast for Freedom website.

Looking for other ways to lend a helping out? Here is where to volunteer in Melbourne.