Brotherhood of St Laurence
- Brotherhood of St Laurence
The Brotherhood of St Laurence, known colloquially as The Brotherhood (including, occasionally, in its own advertising) is an Australian Faith-based charity based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Established during the Great Depression, the Brotherhood of St Laurence was the vision of Fr Gerard Tucker, a man who combined his Christian faith with a fierce determination to end social injustice. The Brotherhood has developed into an independent organization with strong Anglican and community links which continues to work for an Australia free of poverty.
The charity runs a number of programs to help the poor, for example, during the 1980s, the charity was influential in building the food cooperative movement in Victoria.
Services job training and placement programs, care for the elderly and disabled, early childhood development programs and support services for newly arrived refugees and migrants. They accept donations of electrical items. They then get fully tested and are made available to the public at greatly reduced prices. Some perceive the Brotherhood to have a political bias towards the center-left Australian Labor Party.
It also runs a reference library, which is open to the general public.
ee also
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External links
* [http://www.bsl.org.au/ Brotherhood of St Laurence]
References
* Radford, Ray, "Food Co-ops: A Resource Handbook"
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