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Rob Hooton

Rob Hooton

Third-generation farmer at Leeton, NSW, co-founder of Grain of Hope humanitarian wheat shipment project to Sudan

Jun 7, 2026

4:30
What's the sort of cost breakdown of the project at, at this point?
4:33
Well [chuckles], it's, it's massive.
4:35
Like we, we thought, we'll, we'll donate the grain and someone will snap it up and it'll just go to the beneficiary within months and, um, happy days.
4:45
But we quickly realized that our donation of grain is 10% of the cost of getting that, um, ton of grain to the beneficiary in Sudan.
4:57
There's a long, long way to go.
4:59
So we...
5:01
And, and also the escalation of the war in the Middle East.

6 MINS LATER

11:03
And, uh, is there an ultimate vision with this to kind of, uh, create an, an ongoing legacy after this with other potential future humanitarian issues?

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