Three decades of helping others
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COMMUNITY Support Frankston is celebrating 30 years of the Frankston Christmas Hamper Appeal.
The charity expects to deliver more than 10 tonnes of food across 1000 hampers at Uniting Church Frankston this year.
CSF Manager Steve Phillips said “dozens of volunteers (…) will donate their time to make sure that our most vulnerable families, couples and singles aren’t forgotten this Christmas.”
“We’re expecting another record breaking year with demand for assistance continuing to increase, including families that have never reached out for help before. Unfortunately, times are only getting tougher for people surviving on low or no income,” he said.
Groups team up to find homelessness solutions
COMMUNITY groups around Frankston have agreed to pool their resources together to help solve the high rate of local homelessness.
The Frankston City Strategic Housing and Homelessness Alliance features 14 local organisations. The group’s chair Dr Gillian Kay said “ABS Census data showed that homelessness in Frankston City had increased by 14.7 per cent between 2011 and 2016” and “without the alliance we would expect to see further increases recorded in the 2021 Census.”
“Our alliance believes that an adequate supply of affordable and appropriate housing is the first essential step towards solving homelessness, however, we also understand that housing alone is not the solution.