Rebecca Milly Milly has been voluntarily running the Burringurrah Community Kitchen for almost a year now. Each morning she provides breakfast for over 40 school students and at lunch she provides for the students and also the community's CDEP workers. Rebecca also cooks for the elderly members of the community in what she calls, meals without wheels. Being 460km away from the nearest regional town, we are very isolated and get cut off by floodwaters. A healthy eating program is very important to our community, but the fact that the community wants ownership and the ability to figure out their own way of creating sustainable projects means we are limited in terms of our Government funding options. To read more about Burringurrah check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burringurrah_Community

Rebecca hopes this short video will help attract funding for a new commercial kitchen where young people in the community can undertake courses in cooking while feeding the community. Even a small renovation and new equipment (like sharp knives and more bowls/containers for freezing food) would greatly relieve the pressure on Rebecca and provide more opportunities to expand our healthy eating program in Burringurrah community.

You can watch more videos about Burringurrah at www.vimeo.com/Burringurrah to get a feel for what our community is all about and you can listen to music created by the kids at www.soundcloud.com/burringurrah

We'd love you to be a part of the community kitchen, and we are offering rewards including recipes books, visits to the community where we'll put on a feast for you, and more. Our rewards invite you to our annual Fire Festival. This years fire festival is on Wednesday 8th May from twilight at Burringurrah Remote Aboriginal Community
World Class comedy, stunt Juggling by Lee Hayes, Civic Centre Circus’s Aerial Fire,
Music by Junkadelic, Dave Mann, Rafa Godoy, BMX Ballet, Black Screen Film Festival, Fire Sculptures, Bush Tucker, and much more…http://www.rafagodoy.com/
http://www.davemann.com.au/Dave_Mann/Home.html
http://www.leehayes.nl/

The annual Burringurrah Festival of Fire is coming up in May, for photos from last year check out  http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.351653314895937.79826.351614154899853&type=1

Rebecca's long term vision is to have frozen meals available for purchase, and to offer courses in Bush-food cooking for visitors to the community, tourists, and families living in town centers who return to country for visits.