Bendigo Baptist Community Care Bendigo Baptist Community Care

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Field of Interest

  • Community and economic development
  • Housing and homelessness

Target Population

  • Asylum seekers, refugees, migrants and people from CALD backgrounds
  • People experiencing or at risk of homelessness

Organisation Summary

MADCOW is an initiative of Bendigo Baptist Community Care Inc., a self-funded, registered, social enterprise charity. MADCOW stands for Make A Difference, Change our World. We exist to break the cycle of generational injustice and to help prevent family breakdown and homelessness. The profits from our Community Services support our homeless services in the heart of Bendigo.

COVID devastated our community centre and overwhelmed our support services. Witnessing the neglect of those on the street during this period, we moved our attentions to purely homeless services.

Our organisation is in a unique position to address the identified issues/problems because we have been working with this cohort for many years and have successfully piloted this model for the last three years. There are no other services in Bendigo which focus on the homeless in this way.

The sustainability of this model is already proven. We currently fund the pilot project ourselves and are committed to fund the program on an ongoing basis. Our concept has the support of The City of Greater Bendigo which has provided relevant planning approvals. This exciting model will help Bendigo’s most marginalised group.

We work very closely with Haven Home Safe Outreach team and the Bendigo Winter Night Shelter. We have also been working with The Salvation Army, Bendigo Health and La Trobe dental services. We have become a hub for homeless services in Bendigo.

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Level 6, 126 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne VIC 3002

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants and Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live, learn and work. We pay our respects to Elders past and present.

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