This family’s food charity sends out 5,500 free meals weekly – and still struggles to meet rising demand.

Foodbank Australia says 3.7 million households have battled worrying levels of food insecurity in the past year mainly due to living costs.

Rabbi Dr Dovid Slavin (centre) with his daughter Rivka and wife Laya (right). Source: SBS / Sandra Fulloon

Charities feeding those in need say they can barely cope with the rising demand.

Over the past 15 years Mr Karounis has helped grow Our Big Kitchen or OBK, a non-denominational food service staffed mainly by volunteers.

For almost 20 years, OBK has helped sustain a city’s most vulnerable.

They’ve already set up a sister OBK in America’s Los Angeles and provided inspiration to other international projects.

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