This week the Doncaster Secondary College Interact Club ran their first Cook On project for needy families attending Carenet for food assistance. Seventeen students worked enthusiastically to make 83 Pasta Bolognese. The cooked meals are frozen and Carenet pick them up from the school kitchen.
During the prior week the students decided on the menu, make up their recipe, and purchased enough materials to cook the meals. Rotary Manningham City will provide the Interact Clubs at Doncaster Secondary College and East Doncaster Secondary Collage with the funding for their Cook On meals throughout 2026.
At about $3 per meal, we anticipate making 1500 to 2000 meals this year. A meal can feed up to 2 people so this will provide meals for around 4000 people. This is an admirable Rotary project. The DSC school plans on doing Cook On’s fortnightly. The next meals are Butter Chicken then Hokkien Noodles.
Templestowe College will start their cooking project for Carenet in early March.
