Past Charities
Melbourne Citymissions’s Breakfast Clubs
Theme: Monday’s Child
The Breakfast Club provides children with a nutritious breakfast to help them optimise their
learning during the school days while creating paid employment and training opportunities for
local residents, many of whom have little or no work history.
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Lighthouse Foundation
Theme: Be Loved
Lighthouse Foundation provides long term accommodation and intensive support for young people who may otherwise be homeless. The young people live within a family environment for as long as it takes, supporting all dimensions of their lives with a lifetime membership to the extended Lighthouse Family.
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The Australian Childhood Foundation
Theme: Trust
The Australian Childhood Foundation works to give children a happy and secure childhood – a childhood free from the devastation of abuse, family violence and neglect. They aim to strengthen community responsibility for promoting the wellbeing and protection of all children throughout Australia.
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OvCa
Theme: Ten
OvCa is an independent not-for-profit organisation committed to increasing awareness, providing quality information and supporting women with Ovarian Cancer and their families.
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Brainwave
Theme: When I Was Six
Brainwave is a charitable body with the aim of funding medical equipment for the treatment of children with brain cancer and other brain disorders.
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Mercycare
Theme: Open
Mercy Care is a voluntary organisation which provides free supported accommodation to women and children throughout Victoria, who are victims of domestic violence and need emergency overnight accommodation.
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Whitelion
Theme: Pride
Whitelion opens doors to opportunities, relationships and community for young people involved in the Youth Justice System or at risk of involvement. This is achieved through role modelling, mentoring, employment and indigenous programs, outreach services, and through prevention programs run in rural and metropolitan communities.
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St Vincent’s Soup Kitchen
Theme: Nourish
St Vincent de Paul Society Soup Van Service operates on the streets of Melbourne offering soup, food and friendship to homeless men, women and children.
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Worawa Aboriginal College
Theme: Shine
Worawa Aboriginal College provides a holistic education and boarding experience for Aboriginal young women from suburban and regional Victoria and regional and remote communities interstate, in the middle years of schooling (Years 7 – 10)
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Swags For Homeless
Theme: Cocoon
Swags For Homeless are a Melbourne based not-for-profit organisation that provides Backpack Beds to the homeless – an interim crisis measure (emergency relief) for those turned away from shelters.
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Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
Theme: Dignity
The ASRC is a Melbourne based Not For Profit organisation that aims to protect and uphold the human rights, wellbeing and dignity of asylum seekers. They provide aid, advocacy and health services to asylum seekers, while also offering such empowerment programs as employment, training and English language assistance. Most importantly, at times of despair and hopelessness, they offer comfort, friendship, hope and respite.
