Keresi ‘Grace’ Rabuatoka is the force behind The Fijian Community in Sydney. She has just organised – independently – to send a shipment of Addi Road hampers back to very hungry people in Fiji. A true community powerhouse.
“I have loved it here,” say Clint Bolton, the former football goalkeeping star. “You get to a point in your life where you realise the most important thing is the relationships that you have with with people. Coming here, I’ve been inspired.”
A coalition of community organisations dedicated to the notion of a basic living wage is being discussed. With a focus on weaving an alliance over the issue with community organisations in swinging seats at the next election.
The playlist in the hall rocks along to Johnny Cash’s ‘Ring of Fire’ and Creedence Clearwater Revival’s ‘Down on the Corner’. Someone must like their old classics. Volunteers packing hamper boxes inside the Addi Road Food Relief Hub pick up on the musical tempo.
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.
On Saturday 13th March 2021, Addi Road pulled together a group of people to be involved in a street theatre protest-cum-horror movie acted out in Marrickville. It’s what can now you see here as ZOMBIE SEEKER (a la JobSeeker).
Join the Zombie March against poverty as part of the national week of action, “Break the Poverty Machine”: 3-5pm, Saturday 13th of March, Addison Road Community Centre. Come in black, and get dusted with flour to become one of the living dead. Event will be filmed.
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 … “
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.”
“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.”
