As many of you probably already know, there are groups of people who have found this pandemic very difficult. This includes international students.

These young people who are bravely stepping out into the big world are often here by themselves renting and generally adulting perhaps for the first time. They have found that their part time jobs have dried up and then, for many, their parents can no longer help them at all because they too are being impacted by the pandemic in their home country. It is a terribly tricky situation.

So It is great to see initiatives like Foodbank’s new pop-up International Student Shop at 230 LaTrobe Street. It is open 10am-2pm Monday, Wednesday and Friday and students just need their student card and a shopping bag to access basic healthy food supplies.