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Providing a pathway from Homelessness in Ballarat
Meals, skills training and extreme weather accommodation in central Ballarat
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Suggested by: Deb
Project partner: Uniting Ballarat
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Central Highlands
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BreezeWay Meals Program, established 20 years ago, serves 64 meals daily, without Government funding, to Ballarat’s severely disadvantaged. However it has outgrown current facilities. Alfredton Rotary and Uniting Ballarat will create a commercial kitchen and cafe space, relocating the program to a larger, safer, more accessible space, allowing hospitality skills training to our community's most disadvantaged people. Office space enabling support workers to consult easily with clients and extra training space, creates further training possibilities. We will also create a warm, secure resting place for rough-sleepers during extreme cold, extreme heat, flooding and storms. Toilet, shower and laundry facilities included.
Our community's severely disadvantaged people identified lack of skills and community connections as major factors in their disadvantage. This project aims to address these needs with training facilities and the eventual creation of a cafe that is open to the public, staffed by participants in Uniting's programs, thus enhancing client well-being, confidence, independence and living skills. The BreezeWay relocation provides improved safety and accessibility for clients, increased capacity to meet demand for meals, and safer, more functional kitchen premises to sustain the program.
A safe extreme weather space has obvious benefits to our rough sleepers and further creates community connectedness.
COMPLETED PROJECT
Project details
Suggested by: Deb
Project partner: Uniting Ballarat
Region
Central Highlands
Budget
Votes
581 votes received
Spread the word
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Let's make this happen!
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A great initiative
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A wonderful initiative.
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Housing is key in building healthy individuals and communities. A great project, best of luck.
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Excellent idea. Good luck with this proposal :)
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Excellent project that will absolutely change some people's lives.
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Good luck, worthwhile venture
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Well done to Alfredton Rotary
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A very good cause. Good luck with getting the funding.
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Alfredton Rotary Club making a difference tackling a big problem. Well done and good luck
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Good on you, Alfredton Rotarians. Fingers crossed you'll get there!
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Well Done Alfredton Rotary Club
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Great work being undertaken by the Rotary Club of Alfredton.
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I hope you reach your goal its a great project
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It would be a terrible thing not to have a home!
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Great idea
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An excellent idea. I hope you receive what you are aiming for. We take all that for granted.
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We just cant ignore this problem
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An excellent project that will achieve real outcomes for Ballarat an the community.
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This sounds like a great idea.
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exactly the kind of program Ballarat needs!
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Very worthwhile aim to help people in difficult situations in the present but even more worthwhile to help provide a future
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With housing prices and unemployment on the rise, and the increasing push to privatise the healthcare and education systems, homelessness in Australia is at an all time high. It's more important now than ever to support every effort to combat homelessness.
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Danielle
17 Sep 2018
Great project