Step Into Christmas
December 13, 2021
The first day of Addi Road’s #HampersofHope 2021 swings into action.
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Kicking Off
December 9, 2021
Brett Kirk of the Sydney Swans swung by Addi Road today with a special delivery for us. 2,000 Swans caps to go with our #HampersofHope for Christmas!!!
All for One and One for All
December 9, 2021
Morning tea for all our volunteers. Of course, it is pelting down raining again. So, the annual event is held under cover, appropriately enough inside our Gumbramorra Hall, better-known these days for having been converted into the Addi Road Food Relief Hub. The volunteers know this place inside out.
Making The Fijian Connection
November 23, 2021
Keresi ‘Grace’ Rabuatoka is the force behind The Fijian Community in Sydney. She has just organised – independently – to send a shipment of Addi Road hampers back to very hungry people in Fiji. A true community powerhouse.
Jack and the Reindeer: A Xmas Story
November 23, 2021
At first it is hard to figure out what the heck is going on. A gentleman by the name of Jack appears to be presenting Annerie with some type of psychedelic bouquet, a treasure-and-trash flower that is bursting out every-which-way.
A meeting with Fury and Sorrow
November 19, 2021
I meet Fury and Sorrow in the Inner West of Sydney. They have fled Afghanistan by different paths and means. Fury has been here six days; Sorrow six weeks. Old friends come together again.
Radio Knight
November 18, 2021
Dominic Knight is here recording a documentary for his Sunday morning program on ABC Sydney 702. The ex-Chaser man has asked Addi Road CEO Rosanna Barbero for “a royal tour”.
Making History
November 11, 2021
During World War One, Addi Road was ‘place of enlistment’. Many of the original barracks are still in use today. ‘Ten Ordinary Men – The ANZACs of Addison Road’ tells the stories of ten young men who came here.
From Kabul to Sydney, one Afghan woman tells her story
October 28, 2021
Radio National’s Fran Kelly came to Addi Road to interview Marwa MoeEeen about how she engineered her remarkable escape from Aghanistan with her family and 15 fellow female university students.
The Story Teller
October 27, 2021
Addi Road inspired Mike Williams to create a half-hour documentary, ‘The Dignity Business’, for Radio National’s Earshot program.