Bread and Heart

Bread and Heart

Marcel pulls up in his Gift Of Bread van out the front of Addi Road Food Pantry Marrickville. The slogan on the side says it all – humorous, spirited, full of intention:   “Who gives a loaf? We do…”   He founded Gift of Bread seventeen years ago. He now reckons...
Let’s Get Cooking

Let’s Get Cooking

These chicken wings are freezing!” Andrew, a volunteer at our Addi Road Food Pantry Camperdown store, has his hands bowl-deep in a pile of at least a hundred wings. He’s wearing gloves but it makes little difference. It’s tough job, people laugh, but somebody’s...
Share the Dignity at Addi Road

Share the Dignity at Addi Road

  Therese pulls up in her car right beside Addi Road Food Pantry Marrickville. She hops out and flips open the boot.   Inside, she has bags and bags of sanitary products that have been donated to Share the Dignity, the organisation she volunteers for.   Soon Addi...
The Door is Open

The Door is Open

Addi Road Food Pantry Marrickville is open again. It’s a warm, drizzly day in Sydney, one of those slow-down-even-if-you-want-to-go-fast days. Reflective time to take in the fact one year has passed and a new one is really here to stay a while.   What might that mean?...
Breaking Bread, Breaking News

Breaking Bread, Breaking News

SBS News are here to film Addi Road’s work at our Food Pantry in Marrickville as well as the hive activity underway during our annual Hampers of Hope push for the holiday season. It’s the week before Christmas and we are rocketing towards our goal of 2000 hampers,...