Posts Tagged ‘BSL’
Social Exclusion Monitor: Community resilience
Posted in Research by Kate Archdeacon on November 9th, 2011
Source: Brotherhood of St Laurence
Image credit ‘The Brotherhood of St Laurence and the Melbourne Institute 2011′
More than one million Australians experience deep social exclusion.
Social exclusion occurs when someone experiences multiple, overlapping problems, such as unemployment, poor health and inadequate education, which stop them fully participating in society. Tackling social exclusion helps make Australia a better place to live for everyone.
The social exclusion monitor is a new approach to measuring social exclusion in Australia. Developed by the Brotherhood of St Laurence and the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research (MIAESR), it uses the annual Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey of 13,000 people. The monitor finds that more than one million Australians deal with deep social exclusion. This means that they experience at least four different sorts of disadvantage in their lives, such as being on a low income, having little work experience, not being involved in community clubs or associations and not being socially active. You can use the monitor to better understand who is missing out in Australia and to gauge the effectiveness of government social policy.
Read more about the Social Exclusion Monitor; the eight key groups who experience social exclusion; and the project’s background research: www.bsl.org.au/Social-exclusion-monitor
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Inclusive Cities: transforming the lives of Delhi’s urban poor
Posted in Events, Research by Kate Archdeacon on September 30th, 2011
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Source: Brotherhood of St Laurence
Photo: Asha
Over 23 years of working with the urban poor in India, the non-government organisation Asha has developed a community development model that emphasises pro-poor growth and the inclusion of slum dwellers in the rest of society. Join Dr Kiran Martin, Director of Asha, and Visiting Fellow at the Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne, at this special lunchtime seminar.
Around one third of inhabitants of the world’s cities – nearly one billion people – live in urban slums. Over 3 million people in India’s capital New Delhi, stay in slum areas. India’s slum populations are growing at much higher rates than urban populations overall, a trend mirrored across the developing world. This state of affairs is unsustainable for India and the world. People in slums display poor developmental indicators across the board, from poor health to low literacy rates to lack of access to financial services. Over 23 years of working with the urban poor, the NGO Asha has developed an urban community development model that emphasises pro-poor growth and the inclusion of slum dwellers in the rest of society. Having seen success in poverty alleviation through programmes in health, education, empowerment, financial inclusion and environmental improvement, this seminar focuses on how Asha has achieved results in heterogeneous slum communities through the practical application of such universal values as equality, individual dignity and social justice.
12.00 pm – 1.00 pm, Tuesday 11 October 2011
Fr Tucker’s room, Brotherhood of St Laurence, 67 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
Click through to register your attendance or to read more about Dr Martin.
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Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne Speaks on Sustainability
Posted in Events by Virginia on May 12th, 2009
Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne, Dr Philip Freier, hosts a monthly series of “Conversations” at Federation Square in Melbourne. They are free, public events with topics and themes “on the public mind”.
Dr Freier will be joined by the PM’s adviser on Climate Change and author of the 2008 Garnaut Climate Change Review, Professor Ross Garnaut, for a discussion on exploring the question ‘Does Australia have a sustainable future?’ The conversation is expected to be challenging and controversial as it considers the difficult energy choices which lie before us.
Christian nuclear energy advocate and environmentalist, Ian Hore-Lacy, will also join the archbishop and Professor Garnaut for the conversation. Mr Hore-Lacy believes Christians are focusing on the wrong thing: “Christians need to stop talking about the environment and properly address the broader and more significant reality of God’s creation.” He believes ‘populist bandwagons’ are distracting attention from the real solutions.
Event: ‘Conversation’ with Dr Philip Freier on Sustainability
When: 7.30 – 8:45 am, Tuesday 19 May 2009
Where: BMW Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne
The Brotherhood of Saint Laurence Wholesale Food Security Community Enterprise
Posted in Models, RDAG by Virginia on April 15th, 2009
The Brotherhood of Saint Laurence (BSL) is an independent organisation with strong Anglican and community links that was established during the Great Depression to end social injustice and fight for an Australia free of poverty.
The Brotherhood’s mission is to deliver services, develop policy and support social change to help empower people, build community capacity as part of the community by creating and developing enterprise projects and ventures as catalysts for individual and community transformation.
BSL is currently conducting a feasibility study as part of its Community Enterprise Development Initiative into establishing a Wholesale Food Security Community Enterprise (also called “Food PAD”) to source produce for redistribution for local community organizations. This project aims to support the development of food related community enterprises to address issues of food insecurity and provide a pathway for social engagement and skill building while benefiting the environment.
The project intends on establishing and facilitating new sets of relationships between producers and consumers, placing the focus foremost on community benefits, whilst supporting the creation of sustainable new community initiatives. BSL, the Victorian Government and other stakeholders will provide the catalyst for the project while the impetus and ownership of the community enterprise will rest with community organizations. BSL is also supporting the development of two other food projects, the Western and Northern Metro Distribution Systems, in addition to the Food PAD project.
For more information about this project visit www.bsl.org.au or www.communityenterprise.org.au.
This is from “Social Innovations in Victorian Food Systems” case studies by Ferne Edwards.
Phoenix Fridges at the Sustainable Cities Round Table, 24 September 2008
Posted in SCRT Videos, Sustainable Cities Round Tables by Ferne Edwards on October 9th, 2008
As stated on the Phoenix Fridges website:
“The Phoenix Fridge Project is a world-first – an innovative approach to tackling the inefficiency of household fridges which are major contributors to ozone depletion, climate change, waste disposal and landfill limitations. Phoenix Fridges takes fridges donated from all across Melbourne and recycles, repairs, and retrofits them to make them more energy efficient. The project also achieves great outcomes for the community by providing training and employment for people who are unemployed.”
And we were very happy to have Jeff Moon, General Manager of Social Enterprises, Brotherhood of St Laurence, speak at the recent Sustainable Cities Round Table on Waste Not Want Not talk about this project! Check out the video of his presentation below or visit the websites hyperlinked above.
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