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Your donation to Mission Australia can transform the life of someone who is homeless, facing crisis, unemployed or whose family life has been shattered.


Mission Australia stands up for people in need and helps them back on their feet. We strengthen families, empower youth, strive to solve homelessness and provide employment solutions.

In 2009-10 we operated over 550 community and employment services from 350 sites in metropolitan, rural and regional Australia. Our services transformed the lives of more than 300,000 Australians by providing a hand up, a way forward and hope for a better future. In the past year we:

  • Assisted 6,500 families and 30,000 individuals through our services for children and families
  • Developed an early learning curriculum addressing the individual needs of children at Mission Australia Early Learning Services centres
  • Transformed the lives of over 18,000 young people and helped more than 550 families through our youth services. We also released our Youth Employment Strategy, which looked at ways to tackle high youth unemployment
  • Assisted 29,000 individuals and more than 1,600 families through our homelessness services and developed MA Housing with a view to providing 1,200 affordable, long-term housing to families and individuals
  • Helped over 3,800 people to build their skills, and developed our social enterprises model
  • Assisted almost 155,000 people to train for and gain employment, placing over 52,000 people in jobs
  • For further information, view our Annual Reports


Our vision is to see a fairer Australia by enabling people in need to find pathways to a better life. With your generous support, we help them discover:

 

News Updates

Half all youths in juvenile detention unsentenced: AIHW

Thursday, 09 February 2012

About 1,000 young people are in juvenile detention on an average night in Australia and almost half have yet to be sentenced for a crime, according to a new report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). The Juvenile Detention population in Australia 2011 report found that on an average night in the June quarter of 2011 there...
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Still time to be part of Reconciliation Through Dining

Thursday, 09 February 2012

There’s still time to book a seat at Mission Australia’s Charcoal Lane Reconciliation Through Dining event, to be held on 10 March as part of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. Sitting at tables of 10, to promote conversation and connection, dinner guests will be served a five-course degustation menu matched with wines. Local Aboriginal...
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Founding Purpose - 'Inspired by Jesus Christ, Mission Australia exists to meet human need and to spread the knowledge of the love of God'

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