Breaking Bread, Breaking News
December 18, 2023
SBS visits Addi Road Food Pantry Marrickville and #HampersofHope
Category: Food Relief
Telling a Better Story
November 17, 2023
Our customers of the week, Kim and her daughter, tell us about their lives and give us some thoughts on why Addi Road Food Pantry is such a beautiful place to visit.
Close to Home
November 1, 2023
A new report from Food Bank Australia reveals that 3.7 million households (36%) experienced moderate to severe food insecurity in the last year. The report also reveals that almost half of Australia’s population is feeling anxious about being able to consistently afford or access adequate food.
Night Songs
August 23, 2023
‘Here Comes the Night’ sings out over the road out front of the Addi Road Food Pantry in Marrickville. A low-flying plane is coming in to land, adding to the Inner West soundtrack. The old Them song is a 1960s classic, with Van Morrison’s voice exultant and oddly melancholy, as if all of us somehow got lost in an old radio for a little while.
Food, Justice, Community
August 22, 2023
Food on the table restores pride, provides a breathing space for families and individuals alike to keep going while under pressure. It’s a matter integral to self-respect, offering a breathing space as incomes are sucked into rising rents and cost-of-living pressures that negate people’s ability to feed themselves. Mental health, relationships, emotional stamina, children’s levels of anxiety, the room to innovate in some small way and climb out of your difficulties is shot to pieces if you can’t afford enough food to get by each day.
Waltzing Matilda
August 10, 2023
Community can be a strange and unexpected thing. You can’t always advertise and promote or express it easily. Then something special happens – like last night – and everything about what do and who we are comes together without us even trying. We hope you feel some of that spirit in our newly-formed and somewhat loosely gathered ‘Addi Road Band’ doing their fine version of Waltzing Matilda.
Bread and Flowers
July 27, 2023
One hour left till closing time at the Addi Road Food Pantry. There’s just enough time to share some flowers. Two of our volunteers, Annerie and Ros, stand outside in a last splash of afternoon sunlight, making use of a bench to carve up a thick crop of purple succulents that “some nice man” has randomly donated..
Swans and Addi Road Get Cooking
July 26, 2023
When AFL team the Sydney Swans swept into Marrickville West Primary School last week you can imagine the fuss and excitement. Working together in partnership with Addi Road, the Swans were all the more popular for offering us a big helping hand at the MWPS’ Breakfast Club that is run at the school by Connect Marrickville.
New Spirits in a New Place
July 26, 2023
Colombian students shopping at Addi Road Food Pantry Marrickville: “This place here… it’s a really good place.”