Mission Australia’s Bellambi site, thanks to some generous local donors, will be putting on a free Christmas Breakfast on Christmas Day for people from the Bellambi and general Wollongong area.

The breakfast will be held on Christmas Day from 8am to 11am at 16 Bellambi Lane, Bellambi. Mission Australia Big Heart Store Manager, Justine Fitzgibbon, who will have a busy Christmas morning overseeing the event, says the breakfast is open to the whole community.

As one of the nation’s leading provider of homelessness services, Mission Australia has described the latest report on Australia’s housing supply – which shows a current shortfall of around 215,000 dwellings with the greatest shortages affecting low income earners – as “depressing reading”.

Mission Australia says the National Housing Supply Council’s State of Supply Report 2011 reflects the parlous state of the nation’s housing profile. 

Media coverage - Weekend Australian, 10 December 2011

In this world of materialism and economic uncertainty it is easy to forget there are institutions dedicated to helping those who are less fortunate than most of us.

While we are running around trying to work out what to buy family and close friends for Christmas, there are people who are simply looking for their next meal or somewhere safe and warm to sleep.

Fortunately, there are organisations such as Mission Australia, a Christian community service group that has been transforming the lives of Australians in need for more than 150 years.

Media coverage - The Adelaide Advertiser, 03 December 2011

The playground transformation at Mission Australia's Elizabeth Vale Early Learning Service (ELS) has now been completed.

Thanks to a generous donation from the Abbot Foundation, the playground at Elizabeth Vale has been transformed from a sterile area covered with artificial turf into an exciting outdoor space filled with natural elements.