A Mother's love and resilience We were inspired to hear Sharon's story, a mother of a LiveWires participant, who has faced adversity with strength and resilience. Sharon grew up in Country Victoria, born in Benalla. A lot of her 20s and early 30s was spent travelling [...]
We are hosting an International Women’s Day event at the Collingwood Neighbourhood House to celebrate the diversity of women and their achievements. We will be celebrating with local women and mothers who have agreed to contribute their skills and talents on the day to run activities for their [...]
LiveWires and the Collingwood Soup Van Holiday Program held activities across wider Melbourne in January for 81 children and 45 parents and grandparents living in the Collingwood and Richmond Housing Estates. On a sweltering hot day, families piled into three buses and headed to FunFields. It was a beautiful [...]
Anne Attard is the Queen of the Kitchen at LiveWires. Each week she teaches a group of children how to cook pasta, lasagne, potatoes and dumplings – while also letting them scrape the bowl and taste left-overs of brownies, slices, muffins and goodies they've baked. She began volunteering [...]
