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We’re Extending the Welcome!
St Mary's House of Welcome is thrilled to announce that, thanks to an incredibly generous grant from the Peter and Lyndy White Foundation, we will once again be opening on Saturdays for people who are sleeping rough!
60th Anniversary St Mary’s House of Welcome
For many years prior to 1960, men who were homeless and disadvantaged lined up outside St Vincent’s Hall in Fitzroy to receive a sandwich from the Daughters of Charity at lunch time. The Sisters were never satisfied with this make-shift service and longed to have a Centre to which these men could be invited to be served a meal with dignity.
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