This year we have been growing a range of vegetables. We make regular donations of vegetables to refugees and asylum seekers. We also deliver weekly two or more large bags of vegetables to The Redfern Community Centre. This centre is frequented predominantly by indigenous locals. Some vegetables are used in the preparation of meals on […]
CONTINUE READINGThis year our group celebrates its 7th Birthday. Our work has consisted in providing monthly quality hot lunches for refugees and asylum seekers who attend the Asylum Seekers’ Centre in Newtown. Our teams are not only respected but truly cherished by these refugees and asylum seekers and by the staff. This year as in 2018 […]
CONTINUE READINGVDSA Committee member Nicoletta Zanardi presents on the association’s activities of support and solidarity with refugees at the 2019 fundraiser. Nicoletta died of cancer a few months after this video was recorded and her colleagues and friends at VDSA, as well as the many people she helped in her role here, remember her with enormous […]
CONTINUE READINGWe are pleased to announce that Valerio’s second book ‘Travel Journals’ has found a place in the Piccolo Museo del Diario in Pieve D.Stefano. As you might know, the Archivio Diaristico di Pieve S.Stefano in its 35 years of existence has collected more than 8,000 stories of Italians: young and old, contemporary and ancient, cultured […]
CONTINUE READINGThank you to all who contributed and attended the VDSA 2019 fundraiser! As well as helping to fund the association’s ongoing programs, the fundraiser is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the association’s achievements, connect with other members and enjoy an evening of good food, entertainment and maybe even a raffle prize or two! See you […]
CONTINUE READINGIn the last year, we’ve continued our support for Villawood detention centre detainees, ex-detainees now in the community, and detainees’ families living at Miowera Village. Using our precious funds, we have supplied phone cards, groceries, second-hand books and toys, baby items and the occasional gift card to refugees and asylum seekers to relieve their distress, […]
CONTINUE READINGOur Group was born in 2013, and since then it has provided regular monthly hot lunches for the Clients of the ASC in Newtown. Flexible in its structure, efficient and generous the group is by now well-known and well-loved both by the Staff of the ASC but most importantly by its growing number of its […]
CONTINUE READINGVDSA is proud to support the Marrickville Youth Resource (MYRC) Centre’s Aboriginal Art and Outreach Program, with VDSA President Vittoria Pasquini attending the launch of the Program exhibition ‘Yarn N Arts’ at Boomalli Gallery in Leichhardt on October 30.
CONTINUE READINGThe VDSA vegetable garden team recently started donating vegetables to St.Canice’s, Elizabeth Bay, which has a long history of looking after the needy, including many refugees. We deliver directly to the person who organises and cooks lunches on the 3rd and 4th Mondays of the month and she is most grateful for our fresh, organic […]
CONTINUE READINGThe Refugee Group is now focussed on three different areas – firstly, the Villawood detention centre, secondly, Miowera Village adjacent to the detention centre but no longer enclosed and thirdly, ex-detainees now living in the community. Immigration is making it increasingly difficult to visit the detention centre as soon it will be necessary to apply […]
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