Emergency Relief Appeal

What do we do?

The Springvale Community Aid and Advice Bureau is a non-profit community based organisation, serving the southeast region of Melbourne for more than 30 years, providing support and assistance to over 10,000 clients per year.

If people are paying 30% or more of their Centrelink payment or other low income on accommodation, they are vulnerable to poverty. Single parents and families with teenage children, isolated single men, often with difficulties like disability or homelessness, are significantly represented in seeking emergency relief.

Young people in supported accommodation need intensive assistance, including emergency relief, to get established after family or other difficulties. Newly arrived refugees, especially those sponsored by family or community rather than government, frequently need some additional support as they repay loans for airfares for themselves and their families, as well as deal with new types of financial systems.

In the past 12 months over $100,000 worth of emergency relief to assist with food, petrol, travel tickets and pharmaceuticals has been distributed yet we are still unable to meet demand.

Why we are seeking your support?

We want to be able to go on supporting our local people where we can and as the demand for emergency relief increases, particularly around Christmas and school time, our capacity to support becomes stretched.

Please help to make a difference to someone else's life. Any donation that you make is very gratefully received.

Key Areas of Expenditure

• Give a one-off donation online
• Give a regular donation online
• Donate by mail
To donate by mail, please download a printable donation form and send through the post to:
PO Box 312
SPRINGVALE VIC 3171
• Donate by fax
To donate by fax, please download a printable donation form and fax to .
• Leave a bequest
To leave a bequest in your will, please read the wills and bequests page for Springvale Community Aid and Advice Bureau Inc..