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... time and helping people that really need help. “I can really empathise with the people that I tutor as I moved overseas to live years ago. I can understand how isolating living in a new country can be, ...
Thursday, 17 May 2012
... people and not families. As you can imagine, this only made him more frustrated. Living in motels further compounded the family’s issues as there were no kitchen facilities. Without enough money to eat ...
Tuesday, 08 May 2012
3. Junaa Buwa! Centre for Youth Wellbeing (NSW)
(Community Services/Community Services)
... living skills like cooking and budgeting, and sport and recreation programs to the young people in residence. Residents also have access to aftercare support for six months after their stay at Junaa ...
Tuesday, 08 May 2012
4. Geni’s story
(News/MA Newsletter)
... Nairobi. Barely able to keep her children alive, Geni was in constant fear that preying wild animals would try to take her children. When her half-sister, who was living in Perth, found out about what ...
Monday, 07 May 2012
... and wanted to help, but never knew how. One day she stopped to talk to an older man who was living in a makeshift shelter near her local shops. She found out his name was Joe* and that the bed bugs that ...
Monday, 07 May 2012
... I was living on the street,” he said. “I didn’t care where I dropped. I just threw my swag down, crawled into it and went to sleep. And I didn’t care whether somebody knifed me, bashed me, shot me, whatever…” ...
Thursday, 26 April 2012
7. Winter Appeal 2012
(Donations/Support Mission Australia)
... and her young family. Brenda and her children spent two weeks on a relative’s living room floor, then five nights in a motel until their money ran out, followed by a dreadful week sleeping in the ...
Monday, 23 April 2012
8. Winter Phone Appeal 2012
(Donations/Support Mission Australia)
... and her young family. Brenda and her children spent two weeks on a relative’s living room floor, then five nights in a motel until their money ran out, followed by a dreadful week sleeping in the ...
Monday, 23 April 2012
... the better of him. He ended up living in a shipping container in Windsor, on the outskirts of Sydney, for two years. Without a kitchen or bathroom, he explained to ABC Radio’s AM that he washed ...
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
... reconnect them with family or friends who can provide a secure and sustainable living environment. “Clearly, we need more of these services to stem the flow of young people into homelessness. We ...
Wednesday, 04 April 2012
... (compared with five per cent of people who had never been homeless).  People who had been homelessness were more likely to be living in more disadvantaged areas and were almost three times as likely ...
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
... has spent tutoring vulnerable students in maths, literacy and living skills and promoting the centre's work to charities and service clubs. "There's a huge satisfaction and fulfilment," Mrs East told ...
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
... grandparents in the same situation.  “It gives grandparents the opportunity to discuss issues affecting them; things like receiving payments, frustrations with finances and the challenges of living ...
Monday, 19 March 2012
... closely with to help rebuild young lives. With support from these programs, Jakob has made a remarkable transformation: “I was living in the streets by the time I was 14 and I didn’t understand my mental ...
Thursday, 15 March 2012
... despite thousands of Victorians living in rooming houses, there is no requirement to provide them with locks in toilets, periodic safety checks and at least two power outlets in each bedroom. Local welfare ...
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
... trace the journeys of women living in refuges and – “women who deserve better” – living in community housing and refuges in Sydney and Melbourne. Each photo is accompanied by the woman’s story, explaining ...
Thursday, 08 March 2012
... and alcohol rehabilitation programs for up to eight young people from across NSW. In addition to drug and alcohol counselling and therapy, the service provides vocational and education programs, living ...
Friday, 24 February 2012
... housing and rebuild their lives. One formerly homeless man’s words at the end of the film beautifully capture what it means to find a safe haven after so many years of precarious living: “To feel that ...
Friday, 06 January 2012
19. Going Places (QLD)
(Community Services/Community Services)
... accessing crisis accommodation or other temporary living situations. The program has a “housing-first” approach, which means the first priority is to safely house the person or family. In most cases, ...
Thursday, 22 December 2011
... low incomes to move into the market. “It will also mean homeless organisations have less flexibility and opportunity to move people from supported accommodation into independent living. Which will result ...
Wednesday, 21 December 2011
21. Staff on a mission all pull together
(News/Media Releases Archive)
...  Lemongrove offers people aged 16 to 21 secure medium-term accommodation and help to get back on their feet and find permanent housing. While living at Lemongrove Lodge young people receive support and ...
Monday, 12 December 2011
... Workers to help meet the medical, social, mental health and housing needs of homeless people - some who have been living on the streets for decades. Paul featured in the ‘Altruists’ category of the ‘sydney’ ...
Thursday, 08 December 2011
... a young mother of three who has been living at Aherlkeme since May this year told of how the program had helped put her life on track. “The most important help I received was building my knowledge about ...
Wednesday, 07 December 2011
... by poverty and inequality, participated in the carbon pricing project to represent the interests of low-income households. To read the full ‘The Carbon Price and the Cost of Living’ report or a summary ...
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
... as mental health, counselling, vocational training, fitness classes, living skills and financial management. A social enterprise (a business that also provides social outcomes) will also be developed ...
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
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