Smriti and Kamal have come for Wednesday Night Lights. “We walked here,” Kamal says, though neither indicates quite how far that might be. As it so happens, they are five hours early. So they do a shop at Addi Road Food Pantry and think about the day, whether to stay...
Marcel pulls up in his Gift Of Bread van out the front of Addi Road Food Pantry Marrickville. The slogan on the side says it all – humorous, spirited, full of intention: “Who gives a loaf? We do…” He founded Gift of Bread seventeen years ago. He now reckons...
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?...
ADDI ROCK is coming. The youth music festival is being put together by two 16-year-olds, Paddy and Audrey. They’ve formed a committee and started to book a few acts to do 15-minute sets. Wheels are turning. Paddy just dropped in to the Addi Road Community...
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...
