About us
Food, it’s more than just a necessity
It touches on every aspect of human life: our health, the environment and even our societies.
Established in 2018, the Sandro Demaio Foundation is a not for profit charity that enables young people and their families to take action towards a fairer, healthier and more sustainable food system.
At the Sandro Demaio Foundation, we want food to become our tool for real change. We’re on a mission to inspire food systems transformations that deliver a healthier, fairer, more connected and more sustainable Australia.
To help achieve this, the Sandro Demaio Foundation is proud to present the Little Food Festival together with a team of founding partners.
"We bring together a fantastic team of like-minded personalities and not-for-profit organisations along with government and philanthropic supporters who actively want to build a healthier, vibrant and more resilient population and planet”.
— Dr Sandro Demaio, Founder
What we believe
Our Opportunity
Food is one of the greatest levers to bring about positive health and environmental outcomes. With the biggest gap, and therefore opportunity, being planetary health and food systems education.
We believe, if we can connect kids with the food system, we can help them create a healthier future for themselves and the planet.
Our mission
Create long-term positive social and environmental impact by putting the fun back into real food, transforming our food system, connecting cultures and growing a healthy future generation and planet.
our guiding principles
We recognise everyone has a right to healthy, sustainable, affordable and culturally appropriate foods.
We aspire to be a socially inclusive, free to attend, culturally diverse and zero-waste event.
How we do it
Captivate
We captivate kids to explore and understand the food system which improves health and environmental literacy.
The Little Food Festival connects the dots across how food is grown, processed, moved, purchased, cooked, eaten and re-used so they can make choices that nourish their health and the planet.
empower
We empower kids to become agents of change.
By planting a seed in their heart and minds that, each day, they have the power to make healthy choices for themselves, their community and the planet through good food.