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.
Addison Road Community Organisation has re-purposed our Hall as a storage and production centre. Emergency food hampers are being prepared by our volunteer team (pictured) – and will be given to NGO’s to deliver to their most vulnerable and isolated community members who are unable to shop at our Food Pantry.
I stand with you,
my face masked,
our eyes looking
in at our hearts…
Issues of racism and discrimination work like, and with, the virus we now fear. It’s an issue that cannot and should not be silenced on Saturday, March 21st. We will use all the tools we have available in a podcast that is made available through our Facebook page and website.
Mark’s been coming to Addi Road’s Food Pantry for a while now. Lately, he’s been noticing “all these new faces, and just loads more people. It’s obvious the need is getting bigger and bigger with everything that is going on.”
Barbara Licha opens her ‘In Progress’ exhibition at Addi Road’s Up Space Gallery.
We come together in the belief that we must challenge harmful forces that are growing in our society.
“We love what Addi Road’s Food Pantry does. Because of what we do at Vic on Park, avoiding food waste is at the forefront of our minds all the time – on a business level, and on an individual level too.” Alex Smith, Manager, Vic on the Park Hotel.
Tune in here for news on our children’s book, The Hollow Tree; Addi Road’s NAIDOC week celebration day, ‘Community A. Fair’; recent problems with malicious damage of the Centre; and a forthcoming Public Schools Arts Festival.
Tune in here to a great podcast conversation from 2SER-FM with our own Bruce Knobloch discussing the Rethinking the Urban Forest Conference at Addison Road Community Centre on Friday 24th May.
