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To find out more do talk to the good folk at Climate Action Merribek who will be at the Sydney Road Festival or otherwise reply to this email if you can make some time to help stop this Incinerator.
Lego stunt
During 2022 Homelessness Week in Australia, Melbourne City Mission will stage a publicity stunt in which approximately 7,000 tiny LEGO and DUPLO brick houses will be built on Parliament House steps in Melbourne to highlight the urgent need for youth housing in Victoria to end the youth homelessness crisis.
In 2021, the height of the pandemic, over 42,000 young people came to a homelessness service on their own. Young people represent approximately 25% of the homelessness population, however, very few landlords and social housing providers offer their houses to young people.
The purpose of this event is to raise awareness of the urgent need for a youth homelessness program and more housing for teens and young people who are unable to live at home often due to family breakdown and family violence.
What we need
We are asking for donations of second-hand LEGO and DUPLO. These blocks will be given to our refuges and other homelessness programs that support toddlers and small children after the event.
For more information, contact Andrea Hutton 0488 645 904
2022 Period Project Donation Drive for National Homeless collective
We’re desperate for more period products. We make up to 300 Period Packs on an average week to support people experiencing period poverty. Our Period Packs go all over the country, even into remote Indigenous communities where it is almost impossible to find period products.
But we have a huge problem. We have completely run out of products to make up our Period Packs. So, we’re doing a snap end-of-financial year donation drive and we need your help.
$5 buys a period pack for a person experiencing homelessness.
$60 provides menstrual management support for an entire year for someone unable to afford menstrual hygiene care.
$100 provides 6 months of Period Packs plus an Essentials bag with clothing, underwear, bras, socks, and toiletries in a gorgeous tote bag for women experiencing homelessness and domestic violence.
We’re aiming big! We want our first three months of the new financial year to be worry-free for those we support and for us. We desperately need your help to make that happen.
Please donate today by making a much needed financial donation. All donations over $2 are tax deductible. https://www.nhcollective.org.au/
It is only with your help that we can help people experiencing Period Poverty. We can't do this without you. Thank you for helping us help others.
Hi All,
This January 26 show your solidarity by joining us for the Invasion Day Dawn Service virtual event - online for the safety of communities, First Nations’ allies and supporters.
Start your day with this event, or simply register and get a link to view later and share with friends, family and workmates. Reach out and invite others to join you on this truth telling journey. You can print the poster here, or download the poster as an image for social media here.
There are also events happening across the continent - see below for details.
January 26 is Survival Day - recognising that the nationhood of Australia has came at a cost to First Nations people. On the 26 of January, 1938, a number of Elders called for a Day of Mourning, whilst a new nation celebrated nationalism and occupation. We need to know our history so we can move forward together. First Nations people are strong, and when they are free to choose their own path we all benefit.
Stolen Land. No treaty. Colonisation continues. Time to pay the rent.