Addi Road Volunteers Acknowledged at Awards
May 21, 2021
Addison Road Community Organisation is very happy to see our volunteers acknowledged this week at the Inner West Council’s 2021 Amy Large Volunteer Awards.
Tag: food rescue
Gang of Youths in Banana Smoothie Rampage!
May 19, 2021
Emma, Sarah, Pokes, Will and Josh are down here again at Addi Road Food Pantry Marrickville. Except for Sarah, who has come visiting her sister Emma, they all live in a big share-house in Newtown.
Faces of Addi Road: Joe
February 11, 2021
“When I saw the story on TV I saw your van, I saw the writing. And these people I knew getting their food.”
Faces of Addi Road: Shiri
February 4, 2021
“Being at Addi Road is a like coming to spend time in a village. A village away from all the madness outside in the city.”
Faces of Addi Road: Mary and Paul
February 3, 2021
“Working here … you see a lot of people giving. It affects me a lot because it really does fill my heart with happiness to be in the middle of it all, helping out with everyone else.” – Mary
Faces of Addi Road: Estelle
February 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 … “
Food Security, Social Justice and Donna Summer
January 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 full-on year.”
Matthew’s Christmas Ecosystem
December 24, 2020
“There is more to it than the hampers. We’re helping people, and we’re helping one another. We’re bringing people together. Helping people has different meanings to different people,” Matthew says sagely. “It helped me just to be here.”
Not Forgotten – Addi Road’s Hampers of Hope and Mobilising for Mogo
December 22, 2020
“The hardest part is that the majority of people are still learning how to ask for help. Even after all this time it does not come naturally to them.” – Sallianne McClelland, Mobilising for Mogo, #Hampers of Hope at Addi Road.
