Before David Sinclair discovered FoodShare, he was skipping meals and rapidly losing weight, overwhelmed by rising rent, electricity bills, and supermarket prices. / (min cost $ 0 ) or signup to continue reading Initially "ashamed" to ask for help, he credits the Border charity for rescuing him from depression and keeping him from sliding back into homelessness. "It got to the point where I was going through depression again, thinking, 'am I going to go back to where I was'?" he said.
"That was scary in itself because I just didn't want to do it again. "I ended up going down to about 70kg. But with FoodShare involved, I'm back up to about 90kg.
" You think, 'where am I going to get my next meal'? Mr Sinclair became homeless at 14 and spent the next 19 years living rough. His friends helped him find a rental eight years ago, where he remains to this day. However, in 2022 he noticed cost-of-living pressures increase.
"I noticed the electricity pinch more than anything," he said. "My rent's gone up an extra $100 a fortnight for the year. "It's not just that, it's the supermarket stuff.
You can't do anything. You go in there and the price has gone up an extra dollar or two on nearly every product. Where's our extra money coming from? "The cost of living, unless you've got a bit of money, you just can't do it.
You think, 'where am I going to get my next meal'? When you're in that dark depression, there is nothing Before he discovered FoodShare a year-and-a-half ago, Mr Sinclair sai.