News & reports
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Nicoletta Zanardi speaks at VDSA’s 2019 fundraiser
VDSA 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…
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Valerio’s Diaries at Museo dei Diari
We 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…
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VDSA fundraiser 2019
Thank 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…
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ASYLUM SEEKER/REFUGEE GROUP – 2018 REPORT
In 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,…
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REFUGEE LUNCH GROUP – 2018 REPORT
Our 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…
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Celebrating Yarn N Arts – MYRC’s Aboriginal Art and Outreach Program Exhibition
VDSA 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.
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GROWING FOOD FOR THE DISADVANTAGED – JUNE UPDATE
The 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…
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ASYLUM SEEKER/REFUGEE GROUP – 2017 REPORT
The 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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GROWING FOOD FOR THE DISADVANTAGED – 2017 REPORT
During 2017 our group continued to grow organic vegetables. These were given to refugees and asylum seekers living in the community and experiencing poverty and misfortune. Fresh vegetables are also delivered weekly to two emergency centres which house some indigenous women and refugees. Some volunteers have prepared pesto and salsa verde made from garden produce.…
