Media launch for the State Government’s Homelessness Action Plan

The Hamodava Café today hosted the media launch for the State Government’s Homelessness Action Plan which as all about innovation and doing things differently.

The newly opened Hamodava Café at The Salvation Army, 69 Bourke Street, Melbourne is an innovative way of providing services to the most marginalised people of the city, treating them with the upmost dignity and respect.

The Hon. Wendy Lovell, Victorian Government Minister for Housing outlined The Homelessness Action Plan that will see the Government focusing on early intervention and pathways to address the homelessness across the State.

 

 

 

 

Transform the Urban Jungle

Transform the Urban Jungle is an exciting event approaching which is the coming together of youth to engage in our homeless and urban justice initiatives.

We need young people to join us for THE BEGINNING of BIG THINGS on OCTOBER 13Th 2011. 7pm-8pm @ the Salvation Army 69 Bourke St, Melbourne.

Our goal

  • To RESTORE HOPE for the lost
  • To REBUILD DIGNITY for the broken
  • To RENEW a sense of COMMUNITY for the lonely

With YOUR HELP we CAN

  • TRANSFORM the lives of the forgotten
  • TRANSFORM the structures and systems that CAUSE SOCIAL and ECONOMIC poverty
  • TRANFORM THE URBAN JUNGLE

GUEST SPEAKERS – MUSIC

info on how to get involved in the URBAN JUNGLE TRANSFORMATION

Here are the links to our Facebook page and Event page. Please feel free to pass these details onto your young people.

EVENT

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=192288074177483
PAGE: www.facebook.com/melbourne614  

MORE INFO

0449 804 954
www.salvationarmy.org.au/order614
www.facebook.com/melbourne614
The night will be followed by free (ðical) coffee/tea/food in our Hamodava Café!  

Media Release: A New Look for the Salvos in the City

At 2.15 p.m. on Sunday August 14, The Salvation Army will open its refurbished centre at 69 Bourke Street. The Territorial Commander of The Salvation Army, Commissioner Raymond Finger, will march down from Parliament House ahead of The Salvation Army Staff Band, he will unveil a plaque commemorating the completion of the redevelopment of the Salvos building in the centre of Melbourne. Read More

Encouraging Words

Victoria Premier
Click to read Ted Baillieu MLA

Victoria Police
"Victoria Police and The Salvation Army have maintained a strong relationship over many years with our combined focus on community involvement. The Salvation Army has continued to provide invaluable support to policing activities through initiatives such as the weekend street teams assisting at risk youths, assistance at large community events and provision of counselling services and emergency accommodation. Victoria Police looks forward to maintaining and developing this relationship over the coming years."
Assistant Commissioner Fontana

Magpies lending a helping hand to Melbourne Homeless

An encore for the Limelight movie studio

The world's oldest original film studio will be open to the public in Melbourne this month after being virtually entombed for more than 100 years. Read ABC article

Salvo Stories from the past

The Heritage Centre: a purpose-built museum and archives atop stately 69 Bourke Street crammed with artefacts, memorabilia, Ephemera, documents, photos, and more!

Learn how the SAO biscuit came into being. How Arthur Arnott left the family biscuit-baking business and became an important Salvation Army Office; and then in 1906 his brothers launched a new cracker biscuit in his honour – the SAO (Salvation Army Officer) biscuit, which is still popular today.

Learn about the "Salvation Airforce" – the flying ministry to the isolated communities in the north of Australia which began in a cloth and wire bi-plane in 1945 and today flies a modern Cessna and a helicopter. The first  Flying Padre survived several aircraft crashes and his legacy is on display in the museum.

Learn how The Salvation Army produced the first feature film in the world? Or did it? Some historian claim so; but the epic Soldiers of the Cross multi-media presentation introduced the viewing public to lengthy narrative costume drama. The extant Limelight Studio is Australia's first film studio and now forms part of the new museum providing a unique venue for telling the Limelight Department's innovative