Boxed food hampers decorated with good-will messages from primary school children are piled up high, waiting for pick-up and delivery to those short on food and in need.
The initiative is part of a social support response to the devastating economic effects of COVID-19, run by the Addison Road Community Centre and Food Pantry in Marrickville in Sydney’s inner west. The service, which relies mostly on volunteers and donations, has received an overwhelming demand for food hampers from the unemployed, Aboriginal communities, refugees, international students and many others without adequate government support, and who have suddenly found themselves financially vulnerable as a result of the epidemic.
Pictured here also are international tertiary students, mostly from Colombia and elsewhere in Latin America, who are stranded in Australia without flights back home, and with little or no work. They are not entitled to any government support whatsoever. Around 100 students lined up for food hampers on the day these photographs were taken.
Part of an ongoing photographic series, 'COVID-19 Diaries'.
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