VDSA is committed to supporting programs that foster opportunities for Indigenous Youth. Since 2017, VDSA has supported the Marrickville Youth Resource (MYRC) Centre and Connect Marrickville’s Aboriginal Art and Outreach Program which offers facilitated art workshops for indigenous youth and families by providing funding to ensure the cost of workshop facilitation and art supplies can […]
The Refugee & Asylum-Seeker Program focuses mainly on refugees and asylum seekers who have been released into the community, often after long years in detention. Most asylum seekers are young, fleeing from situations of persecution, danger and discrimination, often based on their ethnicity. They come from countries such as Iran, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Burma and other […]
The Eating Together Volunteer Program offers monthly hot lunches to the clients of the Asylum Seekers Centre, these are refugees who have been already released/ integrated in the community. They are people coming from war torn countries – Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Burma, Central Africa etc – where they have experienced severe poverty, famine, different forms of persecution […]
Since the beginning of the Association in 2011 the Members of the Association have created an organic vegetable & herb garden. In this time, produce has been donated weekly to the following: Women’s & Girls’ Emergency Centre in Kings Cross, the Red Cross Young Parent Program in Randwick, and the Redfern Community Centre. It has […]
