Addison Road Community Organisation in Marrickville is responding to the COVID-19 crisis by extending its food security program and Food Pantry with its new Emergency Food Preparedness and Response Centre. The Gumbramorra Hall, has been re-purposed as a production and...
Jo Rae has turned up outside Addison Road Community Organisation’s Food Pantry with her banjo in tow and a small amplifier. She has a clutch of folk songs to play about workers’ struggles and sufferings from another time and place. Not to mention some tales of love...
Kim Johnston is the new director the Addison Road Early Learning Centre. She only started in the job last November, but can safely say, “It’s been really challenging times. Bushfires, floods, and now this.” As much as these things can have an impact on the children...
Coco has come down to the Addison Road Community Organisation’s Food Pantry today for the first time. She and her two friends are looking for food. “Everywhere is cleared out,” she says, “because of the panic buying at the supermarkets.” “It’s a little bit scary,...
I stand with you in a line for food. I stand with you and wait. I stand with you in measured space. I stand with you, my face masked, our eyes looking in at our hearts, our breath in our ears, while we listen out for the call. I stand with you in lines, or loose...
