100 million young people live or work on the world's streets.If you find this hard to swallow, use one of your life's 80,000 meals to make this stop by eating with us.
STREAT is a social enterprise providing homeless youth with a supported pathway to long-term careers in the hospitality industry. We run street cafes in Melbourne where youth get their hospitality training. Our food is inspired by street hawker food from around the world.
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There are moments when as a staffer you sit up and remember why you work with an organization. Watching my boss Rebecca Scott deliver her speech at TEDxCanberra is one such moment for me. Watch STREAT’s cofounder and CEO expound on sustainable consumption and making every dollar you spend count.
Rebecca Scott: In your wallets you’ve all got money… and on either side of your money are some faces… and they’re the visible faces but it’s my long time belief that on either side of your money there are also invisible faces… and they’re not the faces that are stamped on their like the others but they’re the ones that you get to put on there. They’re invisible faces that are essentially attached to the way that you use your money, they’re stories and quite often they’re pretty hard to hear. But what I’d love to share with you today is my view that those other invisible faces are our responsibility even it’s pretty hard to hear those stories.
If you think about the way that we use our money, most of us are trying to get a bargain. We’ve got this little equation in our head about what makes good value and what doesn’t make good value so, we might be thinking about, for example, you know, price might be important, the look of something, the quality, the convenience of it. All of these things go into the equation in our head of ‘am I getting a bargain for this dollar’ or this twenty dollars.
The reality is that it’s a pretty selfish act most of the time, its something that we’re doing and thinking about the bargain for ourselves but quite often we’re not thinking about all of the unintended consequences from the use of that money. So we’re not thinking about ‘are we shafting a whole bunch of other people from the use of this money in a certain way’. Because there are so many things that we are all buying every day, you start to think collectively about how much money we’re spending as a group.
I just wanted to take a wander through one purchase that most of use will be making every day. It’s the simple act of buying a cuppa.
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