Thanks to Addi Road’s Outreach Co-ordinator, Dulce Munoz, we were able to make Good Friday a truly good day, delivering Addi Road’s food relief hampers to 18 families in the Belmore area – as well as helping the Islamic Women’s Welfare Association to get food to its clients.
“I just love the vibe here. I’ve been coming down to Addi Road, packing emergency hampers for the last week… Anyone can help, whether you’re a professional or involved with a local club. That is why Craig Foster’s #PlayForLives campaign is so great. It’s rallying all of us.” – Kieren Jack
A recent Sydney Morning Herald news article on how Craig Foster’s #PlayForLives campaign is motivating volunteers from the sports community to make Addi Road’s emergency food hampers.
“If it wasn’t for Addi Road all the major NGOs and charity organisations we work with would have run out of food two weeks ago.” – Darcy Byrne, Mayor, Inner West Council
“The people I work with are already socially isolated. They can handle that, But they can’t handle the panic happening out there.”
Ties between Bill Crews’ Exodus Foundation and Addi Road are being strengthened as the homeless reach out for help.
Day ends at the Addison Road Community Organisation. Gurwinder starts to take the chairs from the road, leaving only the white crosses that now mark out the social distance needs of our times…
After seeing our Emergency Food Preparedness and Response Centre, Anthony Albanese was moved to call Addi Road “the heart and soul of the electorate.”
Gumbramorra Hall has been re-purposed as a production and distribution centre, where our wonderful staff and volunteers are preparing emergency food hampers. These hampers will be given to NGOs and charity groups to deliver to their most vulnerable and isolated community members and to people who are unable to visit and shop at the Addi Road Food Pantry.
A report from behind the frontlines of unemployment and poverty in Australia, where Mark Mordue responds to a normal day at Addison Road Community Organisation’s Food Pantry.
