Community Service: LoveBangla's Impact on Australian Hunger

This report examines LoveBangla, a Bangladesh-based charitable organization, and its community service initiatives in Australia. The organization focuses on providing food and clothing to homeless and disabled individuals, addressing the significant issue of food insecurity, with statistics highlighting the large number of Australians, including children, facing hunger. LoveBangla primarily relies on public donations and government support, and aims to expand its reach. The report applies the community engagement theory, particularly the quality of life theory, to understand how LoveBangla works to improve living standards and reduce crime rates. It recommends strategies such as raising awareness, collaborating with other organizations, and collecting leftover food to enhance their impact. The assignment concludes with a reflection on the importance of community service in addressing hunger and improving societal well-being. This report is a valuable resource for students, available on Desklib, a platform offering past papers and solved assignments.

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Audience/Customer:
LoveBangla is a charitable organization that helps the people of Australia to get food and
clothing. The remote areas of Australia are highly affected by poor economic condition and the
people over there cannot afford food and clothing (Rches and Silvasti 2014). LoveBangla the
Bangladesh based organization is helping those people who are affected by the poor economic
condition to get food in a regular basis and also provide them clothing every 6 months. The
organization targets the homeless people who struggle to get some food and who does not get
support from the Australian government (Fazel, Geddes and Kushel 2014). The organization
aims at bettering their lifestyle by fulfilling the basic needs of the people. The organization also
supports the handicapped people who are not able to earn and buy foods sue to their physical
disability. The organization also discussed their concern about helping the other nations people
as well for that they need huge support from the local community and the governments of the
respective countries.
Purpose:
LoveBangla is an organization that serves the people of Australia. LoveBangla is a
Bangladeshi based organization that provides charity service in Australia. The objective of the
organization is to provide free food and clothing to the homeless people of Australia. The
organization is 5 years old and has been delivering these services to the people of Australia
continuously. The interior part of Australia and the remote places of Australia have number of
homeless people who does not get much support from the government. A large part of Australian
population has been affected due to the lack of food and clothing. The organization mainly gets

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funding from t he public donation in Australia and Bangladesh. They also gets support form t he
government and the local community. LoveBangla is focused on expanding their trusts in other
countries as well so that they can help the people who need support.
Statistics suggests that in Australia there are 3.6 million people who are experiencing the
food insecurity at some point in each year. Among those 3.6 million people 27% are the children.
About 625000 people receive food from the foodbank agencies like Ozharvest, LoveBangla etc.
About 65000 people are turned down every month for the food shortages (Booth and Whelan
2014). These are some scary number for a developed economy like Australia. These people need
help so that they can survive and stop suffering from malnutrition. The causes of starvation are
many for example poverty, food shortages, climate change and etc. The people who are suffering
in Australia is mainly for poverty and food shortages ()Margulis 2013).
People who are not able to earn money or have poor economic condition tends to steal
foods from the people of Australia. Apart from stealing the foods they also commit serious
crimes like robbing the bank, murder etc. This increases the crime rate in Au8stralia. The only
way to stop crime rates like this is by helping those people and providing the basic needs which
will help them to survive. Providing a better life style and decreasing the crime rate i9s the main
motto of the organization.
The organization also wants to set an example for the Australian population and the other
community service organization that is based in Australia that this is a serious issue. The
organization also wants to give a message to the world that there are people who need help and
our little effort can help them to lead a better life in the society (Silvash and Riches 2014).

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People can even die or suffer from malnutrition but the efforts that the organization has taken
will reduce these risks.
The organization aims at helping each of the individuals who are suffering starvation and
to gain the attention of the people so that they can increase their public donation. This will help
them to solve the problems and will also help to provide food to those 65000 people who are
turned down due to the lack of food.
Community engagement theory:
LoveBangla is a Bangladesh based company that is focused on providing food and
clothing to the people of Australia. The organization has been doing this for last five years. The
organization aims at providing support to the Australian homeless and disabled people. Statistics
shows that there are about 6 million people who are suffering from poverty and cannot afford
foods. This is a scary number for a nation with developed economy. Someone have to take an
initiative and control the poverty level and reduce the starvation. Among those 6 million people
27% are the children who do not get to eat every day. These foodbanks are helping the people of
Australia. The quality of life theory only focuses of helping the society to increase their living
standards of the people.
The theory that these organizations follow are the quality of life theory (Diener, Inglehart
and Tay 2013). The quality of life theory explains means that everyone in the society deserves a
good life. These organizations are focused on increasing the living standard of the homeless
people and help them with the basic needs. As discussed earlier the statistics are very scary and
to reduce the starvation the organization is focusing on the quality of life theory. By this theory

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they will be effective in understanding where people need help and how they can be more
effective in delivering foods to them.
This community engagement theory is important as it focuses on bettering the human
lives and this will also help the society to decrease the crime rate. Bettering the living standard
will help the country’s economy to grow and it will also help them to live in a society with fewer
amounts of crimes. This will help the society and the people living in it.
Recommendation:
LoveBangla is engaged in a social service that will provide food and clothing to the
homeless people of Australia. The organization gets support from the local community and the
government of the country. The organization can be more effective if they try to create
awareness about the hidden starvation in Australia. They need to organize programmes about
creating awareness about how the lack of food is affecting the 6 million people on Australia.
This will help them to raise more funds and will also increase the volunteers. The organization
needs to collaborate with more communities so that they can be more effective. The organization
can also retrieve the leftover food from any events or functions. This strategy is used by
OzHarvest (Kuscu et al. 2013). It is the process of collecting the excess foods from any function
or social gatherings and then distributing those foods to the needy people of the society. This will
reduce the wastage of food and will also help them to give to the homeless people. The
organization can apply this technique by collaborating with the events management team. This is
a nice way to deliver food to the homeless people and it will also reduce the costs of making the
foods. LoveBangla can expand their charitable trusts worldwide which will help them, to gather
more funds and this will help them to provide food and clothing more effectively (Brodie et al.

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2013). LoveBangla can collect clothes form the domestic houses which they don’t use and can
give those to the homeless people which will make will be very helpful for them and as well for
the organizations as it will save a lot of money. World health organization can also help the
organization to create awareness in the market (World Health Organization 2015). These are
some of the recommendation that can help LoveBangla to be more effective in the society. The
organization can use these strategies to help them more effectively.
Reflection:
This assignment helped me to understand about the organization. It helped me to
understand how Australia is affected by hunger. 6 million people in a developed economy is
facing hunger issues every year which is quite shocking. It helped me to understand how our
small efforts can help the homeless people of Australia. The assignment explained how hunger
affects the society for example it increases the crime rates. However, these crime rates can be
decreased with the initiative that LoveBangla have taken. The organization has helped the
society in reducing the starvation and by providing clothing to the poor and homeless people.
The organization helped me to understand about the charitable organization that also focuses on
improving the living standard of the people in the society. Community engagement theories such
as quality of life helped me to know how this charitable organization can be more effective.

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