Manna Industries Inc.

Bridging the gap with a helping hand.

Bev and John Lowe founding coordinators of Manna Ministries in 1996. Pictured here at the 1st anniversary of Manna’s kitchen and dining room premises 2005.

About Manna

Registered Charity

Over ten years ago two community minded people, Bev and John Lowe, saw a need to feed Perth’s street people. Fuelled with a passion of empathy and compassion, these two individuals began to feed on May 18^th 1996, 30 people a week Manna Ministries was born. From a small beginning Manna has now served its 300,000^th meal, has two main programs consisting of Street Work ‘Soup Kitchen’, and Manna Breakfast Clubs.

In 2005 Manna Ministries was Incorporated into Manna Industries Inc. and now feeds over 600 street people a week, and feeds 320 school children a week. With all the programs Manna is involved, the percentage of aboriginal participation is approximately 70%.

All this is done by a team of dedicated volunteers that give of their time and money to support the needed community work of Manna. There are 50 volunteers (plus 20 high school children) working the Street Program, and 10 volunteer people in the Breakfast Club.  Covering the whole of Manna there can be up to 100 volunteer people working in any one month.

Manna is currently supported by businesses state, interstate and overseas. Manna is also a member of Charity Link and Foodbank, both organisation play an important part of Manna’s ability to provide its services.