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.”
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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 … “
Poetry in the Streets
January 28, 2021
Sara M. Saleh is the very recent winner of the prestigious 2021 Peter Porter Poetry Prize. She supports our new #RACISMNOTWELCOME street sign campaign and relates it to her life and poetry.
#RACISMNOTWELCOME street signs to be erected across Sydney’s Inner West
January 28, 2021
A bold new anti-racist campaign devised by the Inner West Multicultural Network in partnership with Addison Road Community Organisation.
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.”
Raising Voices
December 5, 2020
“I do associate art with politics. I do sing political songs; but not pamphlet songs. I try to raise awareness of issues. I try to arouse critical thinking. I try to promote all the voices that are suppressed or that are not given an outlet.” – Justo Diaz
The Man With No Face
December 2, 2020
“If I weren’t in community housing I’d be out in the streets. If I could not get good food at the prices I can here at the Food Pantry I’d starve. I’m separated, but I still have to look after the kids. They come stay with me. How can you sit at a table with your kids and have them say ‘I’d like something to eat’, and you can’t provide it? I’m eating now because of this place. I’m feeding my kids a decent a meal.”
A Month of Waste-Free Meals
November 27, 2020
Celia shops very regularly at Addi Road Food Pantry Marrickville. She recently shared her recipes for a month of beautiful meals created from the rescued food she bought here.