Darebin Information, Volunteer & Resource Service (DIVRS) is a community organisation that connects people in Darebin to opportunity, community and support. DIVRS’s services, programs and information are free. For around 50 years, DIVRS has helped people experiencing personal and financial issues with information, referrals, support, advocacy, financial & bill help and material aid, including food.

DIVRS’s Urban Food Program promotes a vision of local food systems that are secure, sustainable and fair. Volunteers in the program grow and harvest fresh food in gardens and backyards across Darebin to be shared with people in the community experiencing food insecurity. On average, DIVRS supports 150 to 200 Darebin households each week.

The Darebin Fruit Squad is a community fruit harvesting project, also part of the Urban Food Program. A group of trained volunteers harvest excess fruit from registered households in and around Darebin. This fruit is then shared with people in the community experiencing food insecurity.

You can get involved by: donating fresh fruit; becoming a Fruit Squad household or picker; or volunteering in one of their community resource gardens to grow fresh vegetables and herbs to share.