Growing up, I watched my father help people whenever he could. He taught me through his actions that you do not need to have a lot to share what you can.
During COVID, I was working as a security guard in Melbourne. While I still had work, I saw people around me struggling after losing theirs. After covering my basic living expenses, I used what I could afford from my earnings to buy meals and distribute them personally. Sometimes it was around 20 meals; sometimes it was whatever I could manage.
There was no organisation or public campaign behind it. I simply wanted to help someone have something to eat.
I kept helping as the circumstances around us changed, including people experiencing homelessness and hardship. I became connected to the people I met and learned that everyone has a different story. Our purpose is not to judge those circumstances. It is to help where we can and treat people with dignity.
For a long time, much of this happened quietly. Eventually, I realised that while one person could help, a community could do much more. I began sharing the work to create awareness and, most importantly, to find people who wanted to volunteer alongside us. The purpose of sharing our activities is to invite help while respecting the people we meet, not to turn their circumstances into publicity.
Feed Melbourne Mission Inc was incorporated on 26 November 2025. That step helped us build a more organised framework for the work, with the aim of making our outreach increasingly reliable and sustainable.
The people beside us
My friend Anmoldeep Singh has shared the same spirit of helping others since the COVID period, when we were helping in our own ways. Today, as President of Feed Melbourne Mission, Anmol helps coordinate volunteers, technology, social media and organisation behind the scenes. Thank you, Anmol, for giving your time and sharing the responsibility of building this mission.
Our volunteers are the heart of Feed Melbourne Mission. Every person who prepares food, organises supplies, drives, distributes meals or simply offers a respectful conversation is part of this story. What began as something I did personally can reach further because others choose to help.
A special thank you to Lena and Hands, Hearts, Hope, our outreach partner for selected street walks. We are separate organisations that work together on agreed activities while continuing our own independent community work.
Thank you also to Resha, Simar and Shivain Sharma for their time and support. Seeing people choose to help and continue contributing is one of the most encouraging parts of this journey. To every volunteer not named here: your contribution matters just as much.
Where we're going
Our goal is to keep building a reliable community of people who care: more helping hands, practical support and dignity for the people we meet. We welcome people and organisations who share that purpose.
For me, it still comes back to the lesson I learned from my father. You do not have to change someone's entire life in one day to make a difference. Sometimes you start with a meal, a conversation or an hour of your time.
It started with a meal. It grows through helping hands.
Rajdeep SinghFounder, Feed Melbourne Mission
A word from our President
Why I stand beside this mission
I have known Rajdeep for a long time, and during COVID we were both doing what we could, in our own ways, to help the people around us. I saw him quietly buying meals with money he had worked hard for and handing them out himself, with no audience and no expectation of thanks. That stayed with me. It is one thing to talk about helping people. It is another to keep showing up, week after week, when no one is watching.
When Rajdeep decided that one person could help but a community could do much more, I knew I wanted to be part of building that community. Today I serve as President of Feed Melbourne Mission, and most of my work happens behind the scenes: coordinating volunteers, looking after our technology and social media, and putting the structure in place so that every outreach runs safely and smoothly.
That work is not glamorous, but I believe it matters. Good intentions need good organisation behind them. When a new volunteer knows exactly where to meet and what to bring, when a business can see clearly how its support will be used, and when our outreach happens reliably every time, more people get the help they need. My job is to make it easier for good people to do good things.
What I have learned on the streets
Walking the streets of Melbourne with our volunteers has changed the way I see our city. Behind every person we meet there is a story, and very often it is a story that could belong to any of us: a lost job, a broken relationship, an illness, a run of bad luck that never seemed to end. Hardship does not choose people. It can find anyone.
What I have also learned is how much a small act of kindness can mean. A hot meal, a warm jacket, a cup of tea or simply someone who stops, listens and remembers your name. These moments are not small to the people who receive them. They are a reminder that they are seen, that they matter and that they are not alone.
Where we are going
My hope for Feed Melbourne Mission is that it becomes something Melbourne can rely on: a mission that is organised, trusted and always there. I want to grow our volunteer family, build lasting partnerships with businesses who share our values, and keep every part of what we do transparent and accountable.
Most of all, I want us to stay true to where we began. We started with one person and a few meals. However large we grow, I want every person we meet to feel the same care and dignity that Rajdeep showed in those first days.
If you are reading this and wondering whether you can help, the answer is yes. Give an hour of your time, bring your team, share your skills or introduce us to someone who cares. Every helping hand makes this mission stronger.
Good intentions need good organisation. My job is to make it easier for good people to do good things.
Anmoldeep SinghPresident, Feed Melbourne Mission
