Faces of Addi Road: Joe

by Mark Mordue | Feb 11, 2021

Everybody talks about Joe. He’s been coming into Addi Road Food Pantry Marrickville every week for the last three months or more. Sometimes Joe comes in as often as three times in a single week. Each time, he unloads his car with boxes of food and donates it to...

Faces of Addi Road: Shiri

by Mark Mordue | Feb 4, 2021

Shiri says that volunteering at Addi Road is a like “coming to spend time in a village. A village away from all the madness outside in the city. I love all the little huts, the trees, my friends the magpies … I don’t mind the ibis either. I like the gardens that I...

Faces of Addi Road: Mary and Paul

by Mark Mordue | Feb 3, 2021

  Mary and Paul are an important part of our frontline team, helping to run the Addison Road Community Organisation office and receiving visitors throughout the year. They work here as volunteers, giving their time and good humour freely to almost every occasion....

Faces of Addi Road: Estelle

by Mark Mordue | Feb 1, 2021

Estelle has been volunteering at Addi Road Food Pantry Marrickville for the last year. “It’s been fun,” she says. “The people are nice. There’s such a variety of people from all steps of life who volunteer here … we have students, a Qantas engineer … then there’s the...

Food Security, Social Justice and Donna Summer

by Mark Mordue | Jan 21, 2021

Towards the end of 2020 our Food Pantry Manager, Damien Moore, reckoned he’d been working so hard the time had come to drag him away “in a straitjacket singing that Donna Summer song, ‘Enough is Enough (I can’t go on no more!)’. I mean, it has been a pretty...