Flinders students visit Top End and Red Centre
Outback Stores’ current nutrition students, Lamisha and Tiarni from Flinders University, have visited 4 communities across the Northern Territory as part of their 7-week work placement.
Firstly they visited the Nauiyu Store in the Top End with Outback Stores’ nutrition team alongside Yash from the Merchandise team. It was an opportunity to show the students how a community store operates and for them to experience a remote community for the first time.
They assisted with tobacco and nutrition policy checks, as well as the daily WIBIT (Would I Buy It) check. As it was also delivery day, they got a chance to take on various roles throughout the store such as replenishing and presenting stock to help out, and lending a hand at the cash registers.
Next the students flew to Alice Springs to visit 3 community stores across the Red Centre and see School Nutrition Program (SNP) in action.
The SNP aims to provide students with nutritious meals throughout the school term to improve school attendance and engagement. Currently Outback Stores is assisting 10 stores in the Northern Territory to provide breakfast, recess and lunch to school children across 11 schools.
Laisha and Tiarni travelled to Central Australia with Outback Stores’ Health and Nutrition Manager, Anna Murison, to visit the community stores in Tilmouth Well, Yuelamu, and Ali Curung.
Throughout the week, the students helped prepare the SNP meals, provided education sessions to store team members and managers on the SNP guidelines, interviewed stores managers regarding the SNP operations and took many photos and videos to help them with their SNP project. They are developing a standards guide and training package for store team members and managers to help navigate the SNP processes.
Tiarni and Lamisha also got a chance to see the beauty of Central Australia and do some sightseeing at Devils Marbles, Aileron and Alice Springs.
