We cannot thank Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore enough for this food relief initiative. And for the thinking behind it. This is not simply a matter of charity or just feeding people. With rents smashing people’s quality of life and real-estate greed...
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 we do and who we are comes together without us even trying. We hope you...
One hour left till closing 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...
Working in tandem with the Street Side Medics service Addi Road is seeing a new kind of customer and many more people in need. The working poor, the unemployed and the homeless moving ever closer together. Judy has noticed this change in what is going on too. She...
Addi Road Food Pantry here in Marrickville is closing for another day. A barefoot schoolboy nearby, standing behind a tree, makes high calling sounds. “Is that a bird? Is that a bird?” a couple of women call out, as if they can’t see him. Our volunteers are shutting...
