October 2010

And the winner is...

by Vanessa on 6 October 2010

The buildup probably wasn’t what it could have been. STREAT workers were tired, STREAT Graduates were hesitant.  After all, these young people had never been to a graduation ceremony before and had absolutely no idea what to expect.  We arrived at the Apprenticeship Plus graduation ceremony, and looked for the trainees to find that each and every one of them looked absolutely amazing and done up in their finest.

As the actual presentations approached, the trainees were really nervous.  As each STREAT trainee was presented with the well earned certificate, the STREAT support crew rewarded them with huge cheers, applause and woops.

Now serving coffee from a STREAT cart named Desire

by Jo on 11 October 2010

 Dear supporters of STREAT, Fair Trade coffee, and organic produce:

Our new coffee cart is up and running in Melbourne Central and we’re ready to go out into the world with the news. Listen up! Fair Trade and organic coffees are available from STREAT seven days a week in Melbourne Central, near the escalators to the train.  Our opening hours are on this site page.

STREAT's Stop Homelessness campaign video

by Sunisa on 13 October 2010

Thanks to everyone who contributed photos to our Stop Homelessness Campaign! 

Here is the much-promised STREAT Stop Homelessness video. We’ve turned it into our manifesto, a rousing roundup of what we believe in.

And because our creative collaborators are talented and generous with their time, we have more to offer you! One of our volunteers, Craig Frankland, a freelance designer based in Melbourne, has laid our manifesto out visually.  

Click on the poster to download and print it for your home, your office, your circle of friends. Show your love and spread the word—send the video and poster to your community, and get them on board!

Special thanks to Youthworx Productions, and Sonia Mangiapane for her generous photography. 

STREAT action for Anti-Poverty week

by Sunisa on 18 October 2010

This week is Anti-Poverty Week. Let’s increase our awareness of poverty and hardship by reading up and supporting people who do something to mitigate hardship in the country.

STREAT is running a promotion for the occasion. For this week if you’re at our food cart in Federation Square you can donate $3.20. We’ll use that to give someone in need a coffee from our coffee cart in Melbourne Central.

And the same goes in reverse. If you’re at the Melbourne Central coffee cart, donate $4.50 and we’ll buy someone a taco.

More information to come next week on how we distribute the tacos and coffees! Thanks for your support guys. 

Transitions big and small

by Vanessa on 25 October 2010

I have recently been giving some thought to the idea of transition.  What is it?  How does it impact on us as individuals or a group?

My prompting for this thinking was our recent Graduation celebration where we proudly witnessed eight of our Intake 1 trainees graduate from the STREAT program. What an amazing occasion it was, but more about that later.