Pay it forward: Have your pizza and eat for charity too!

There are a lot of individuals and communities doing it tough right now, and with so many charities working extra hard to assist an ever-increasing number of people in need, we wanted to show our support and make a meaningful contribution where we can.

But with so many Australian organisations doing incredible work in a number of areas – from disaster relief and recovery, to mental health and education – we couldn’t decide on just one group to support.

That’s where you, our fellow pizza lovers, come in.

Domino’s is giving you the chance to support one of four Aussie charities, and it won’t even cost you a cent.

In fact, you’ll actually get a pizza.

Commencing Sunday 2 August 2020, Domino’s is giving away 10,000 pizza vouchers per day, for six days, via our Facebook page at 11am (AEST) daily.

For every voucher claimed, Domino’s will ‘doughnate’ $1 to a charity you nominate on your behalf.

To help you make a decision, we’ve narrowed it down to four charities currently doing amazing work in Australia – the Australian Red Cross, White Cloud Foundation, Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), and Foodbank Australia.

Supporting a worthwhile cause doesn’t get any more delicious than this.

Six days. Four charities. Sixty thousand dollars for Aussie charities.

Who will you support? Find out how each of these charities are supporting people and communities doing it tough below.

Australian Red Cross

For more than 100 years, Australian Red Cross has provided comfort and care in times of crisis. Red Cross supports people on the worst days of their life – through natural disaster, war and conflict, isolation and loneliness. Because a little help at the right time can give people the strength to get back on their feet. By supporting Red Cross, you’re making the world we live in a safer, kinder place.

You’ll find more information about the incredible work Australian Red Cross is doing here: https://www.redcross.org.au/

White Cloud Foundation

The White Cloud Foundation (WCF) is a mental health organisation providing early intervention services for adults and their families with, or at risk of developing, depression in its many forms.

Founded by Professor Adam Scott, WCF has developed and trialled a number of programs with the conjunction with health professionals and researchers from the Queensland University of Technology. These programs included a service to support mothers at risk of, or living with perinatal depression, and people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Its Meals for Mums program, providing practical and nutritional support for new and pregnant mothers is currently operating in Queensland and Tasmania, but the not-for-profit is in urgent need of funding to launch its tele-mental health solution, STRATUS, Australia-wide.

Unlike other tele-mental health programs, STRATUS patients will have access to a comprehensive and diverse range of health practitioners, including psychologists, nutritionists, social workers and exercise psychologists, who provide a multiprong approach to building resilience and overcoming depression and anxiety.

STRATUS aims to be of particular benefit to those living in rural and remote communities, as they are less likely to have access to the same range of health care professionals as those living in metropolitan areas.

To find out more about WCF and their plan for a nation-wide tele-mental health program, you can visit their website: https://bit.ly/2PbUdY9

AIME

AIME – which stands for Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience – is a structured educational mentoring program and volunteer movement for Indigenous young people, beginning in high school, and continuing on to university, employment and further education.

Since 2005, AIME has been establishing pop-up Imagination Factories on campuses around Australia and the world on their mission to unlock the internal narrative of marginalised students, taking them from a world that tells them they can’t, to a world that tells them they can.

AIME is committed to creating a worldwide movement of people who want to create a fairer world and build bridges between those with power and those without.

Their work includes:

Helping marginalised young people reach educational parity and beyond, and accelerating entrepreneurship and changing mindsets among them
Giving privilege a purpose by offering those who will have power tomorrow the chance to volunteer today as university mentors
Working with school teachers and educators to change mindsets and transform schools
Encouraging those with power today the chance to create policy change and create more equal opportunities for all

In 2019, AIME received the global ‘Top 50 Organisations in Education’ award for its significant contributions towards the field of education.

Find out how the incredible work of AIME is transforming education in Australia here: https://bit.ly/2ECjzMT

Foodbank

As Australia’s largest food relief organisation, Foodbank provides 77 million meals a year to more than 2,400 charities around the country.

Before the COVID-19 emergency, 1 in 5 Australians were already struggling to put food on the table for their families. As a result of first the Australian Bushfire Crisis and now the current health crisis, demand for Foodbank’s assistance has increased by 78 per cent. They work closely with their partners across the food and grocery sector to ensure they have bulk supply of items in most demand to ensure the most vulnerable Australians have food on the table.

If you’d like to learn more about Foodbank’s current initiatives, head to their website here: https://bit.ly/2XcKyoG