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Canberra City Care sought funds from Hands Across Canberra to help finance a new community kitchen and garden. These new facilities will help us expand the community outreach services offered in West Belconnen.
Area/s of Impact: Community; Family Support
Foundation Support
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$1,000
“Canberra City Care operates a number of services in the West Belconnen area. It works with Oz Harvest on a food rescue service. It also has an op-shop and makes technology accessible through its tech shed.”
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Impact - Canberra Community Cares, Charnwood
Canberra City Care sought funds from Hands Across Canberra to help finance a new community kitchen and garden. These new facilities will help us expand the community outreach services offered in West Belconnen.
Areas of impact: Community; Family Support
Foundation support: Grant under $1,000
Impact - Everyman Australia
"Data shows that people who have been referred to Everyman Australia and successfully completed the program, have a very low chance of reoffending in family violence matters." Rudi Lammers AP, Chief Police Officer of the ACT
Areas of impact: Men; Mental Health
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Impact - Paperworks
Paperworks is a not-for-profit organisation with the aim of enabling social inclusion through community art and by bringing people together through recycling, hand print and papermaking.
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Impact - Safe Shelter
Opening church buildings for the homeless.
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Impact -The Shepherd Centre
The Shepherd Centre is dedicated to ensuring that all children with hearing loss receive the support they need to complete school. Starting school is a challenge for all children but can be even more challenging for those with hearing loss. Children with
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Stories of change ~ Canberra Men's Centre
Hands Across Canberra has provided $5,000 towards establishing the Connect 24 program, which is a pilot project focused on early intervention in domestic violence.
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Stories of change ~ Karinya House for Mothers & Babies Inc.
Karinya House for Mothers & Babies Inc. has been a worthy recipient of two grants from us over the years. One was for $5,000 to provide essential outreach services and the second was for $10,000 to provide targeted assistance for women suffering domestic
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HAC gives over $50,000 to local groups to help people in need
The Hands Across Canberra initiative celebrated its third anniversary on Wednesday 13th November at a lunch at Gandel Hall with Rupert Myer AM the keynote speaker. Hands Across Canberra is dedicated to bringing about lasting change in the lives of disadva
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HAC helps to empower local Tongan Women
The Hands Across Canberra Foundation TODAY (FRIDAY 20 SEPTEMBER) presented the Tongan Association of Canberra and Queanbeyan with a donation of $10,000 to help unemployed Tongan women in the Canberra region to use their skills from home to enhance their l
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Success story - Strong Women: Circus Sisters
In celebration of National Youth Week (NYW) 2014, last week saw the premier of the much anticipated film Strong Women: Circus Sisters. The documentary was officially opened by Minister for Young People, Women and Disabilities, Joy Burch.
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