This week has held some challenges. There has been a particularly difficult situation to deal with at Carrical which has greatly taxed resos, Mark, Amanda and me. I will not go into details here – suffice to say the past 24 hours have been challenging!
Earlier in the week I met with Jason Perdriau who heads up Baptcare’s asylum seekers housing project. There are some clear synergies, as well as many marked differences, between his work and ours. Mark and I are planning a trip out to see Baptcare’s asylum seeking housing project in the near future.
Next Monday 23rd February is the date of the Boroondara Council meeting where we will learn if we are to be offered a new 5 year lease for Hamer. Warren and I are probably going to attend this meeting – as spectators only.
This week has seen donations of clothing and cash come in.
Next week one of the ladies from Romana, Ziva, moves out. Ziva will be missed. She is the only Slovenian national we have housed to date. We have another lady all ready to replace her. Also next week we see our former reso Thahir move back into Hamer as he replaces a gentleman who is moving on to something he perceives as a positive step forward in his housing journey.
Run Melbourne plans are progressing nicely. To date we have 9 runners who were previously unknown to Servants running/raising funds for us on the big day. I believe our $2900 investment in becoming one of the ‘special’ charities for 2015 will pay handsome dividends.
In our weekly meeting this morning Warren and I were looking at our bank accounts and realized that since the start of December we have transferred nearly $60,000 across from our cheque account into our higher interest account. This has been done steadily over the weeks in lots of $5000 and $10,000. Encouraging.
Romana resos Paul, Richard and Jaimie, unofficially known as ‘Servants Grows,’ are doing a steady trade via donations for their propagated plants thru Bar Ristretto. Their work will become a little easier in the coming weeks as Rotary Club of Hawthorn installs a propagating greenhouse for them at Romana.