National Support Network

Turbans 4 Australia (T4A), led by 2023 Australian of the Year Local Hero, Amar Singh, is proposing a national expansion project to address pressing socioeconomic challenges and promote multiculturalism across Australia.

T4A’s vision is to formalise and expand our existing food relief and multicultural community support services to help families in need across Australia. Since 2015, we have been helping governments, communities, and families respond in times of crisis by providing food relief, delivery services, and broader community support, predominantly across the East Coast of Australia.

T4A now plans to extend its services with new centres in Adelaide and Perth supported by mobile kitchen trailers that could operate in anywhere there is a need, particularly
regional centres like Alice Springs.The new facilities in Adelaide and Perth will be multipurpose community centres that, like the original centres in Sydney and Melbourne, will provide nutritious and culturally sensitive meals and takeaway hampers with groceries and personal care items as well as general meeting spaces to be
available for use for organised activities and as a drop-in space for a multitude of multicultural communities.

This general area will include large and small meeting areas that can be booked, free-of-charge by multicultural and not-for-profit community groups when non-programmed
activities are taking place. The expansion of T4A has been designed to meet the
following objectives:

– Help combat the socioeconomic challenges faced by many families;
– Reduce health disparities of vulnerable Australians;
– Build the confidence and resilience of vulnerable Australians through community development; and
– Enhance the social cohesion of those communities where we operate.