After the Flood

by Mark Mordue | Mar 12, 2022

Everything is moving. Trucks are backing up, reverse sensors beeping; men are joking together in the last rays of sunlight as they work right across a dead-end street in the semi-industrial area of Clyde in Sydney’s western suburbs. Amar Singh, Founder of Turbans 4...

International Women’s Day 2022

by Mark Mordue | Mar 12, 2022

International Women’s Day 2022.Theme: #BreaktheBiasHow do we make a picture that tells this story? Simply by inviting those women nearest us on an ordinary day at Addi Road in Marrickville. So who is here? A group of young women who journeyed the hard way to freedom...

Many Make Us One

by Mark Mordue | Feb 11, 2022

Addi Road depends on its volunteers. Each one makes up the many, and the many come together to make us one.   Working in shifts, they naturally forge close friendships and unique teams that have their own personality and working style.   Without them we could not run...

The Soft Machine

by Mark Mordue | Dec 16, 2021

Thursday morning at Addi Road’s #HampersofHope and our packing logistics and volunteer numbers have been affected by concerns around rising covid infections in Sydney in the wake of OMICRON. Bondi Sunset Music set up a bluesy jazzy groove with Craig Foster guesting on...

All for One and One for All

by Mark Mordue | Dec 9, 2021

Morning tea for all our volunteers. Of course, it is pelting down raining again. So, the annual event is held under cover, appropriately enough inside our Gumbramorra Hall, better-known these days for having been converted into the Addi Road Food Relief Hub. The...