When we lose control of our lives, failing to feed ourselves and our families is where we can feel the most pain, the greatest lack of agency and loss of pride. As cost-of-living pressures escalate and everything from rental hikes to mortgage pressures – as well as...
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...
We’ve heard our friend Richard Weeks is not well at the moment as he takes a little time out to deal with an eye operation. It’s hard to imagine anything stopping him for long. The founder and chairperson of the Waterloo Public Housing Action Group...
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?...
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,...
