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Tue, 11 January 2005
Articles
Hare are some more snippets about JEFF from the media. The complete list
of media items can be found here.
...Defining the extent of homelessness in
Australia is a persistently vexing question. The most up-to-date
figures available are from the 1996 Commonwealth Census, which states
105,000 homeless people are scattered ac`ross the country on any
given night. Yet most authorities agree that this estimate is probably
a significant understatement. One problem in counting the homeless
is that many are hidden. They sleep in spare rooms, in temporary
refuges, and are constantly on the move...
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...The logistics of Jeff's operation are
staggering. Each fortnight he purchases more than 900kg of chicken;
each week he buys 150kg of beef; his weekly vegetable bill is between
$1500 and $2000, depending on market prices and what he can negotiate...
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...Each night he and his crew cook
up 300kg of food. A network of donors means he has fresh bread every
night, as well as cakes and doughnuts, and much else. He feeds between
300 and 600 people nightly. In the past nine years, he has provided
more than 1.3 million meals...
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...Just Enough Faith is a personal crusade for
Jeff. The title derives from the letters of his name, but it means much
more than a play on words. "What these people have lost, I think,
is faith," he says. "Not faith in God or the world, but faith
in themselves. If you have no faith in yourself, then how can anything
get better? Yet if you do have faith in yourself, anything is possible."...
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 ...Just
Enough Faith foundation has opened a commercial kitchen and education
centre in Callan Park...
...A commercial kitchen, where chefs prepare
more than 300 kilos of food a day, and a learning centre with 16
computers have been installed in the education centre...
...The centre will begin offering fully accredited
courses in computers, hospitality, horticulture and travel this
month...
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...Mr Gambin's full-time job for the past five
years has been feeding hundreds of homeless people - an undertaking
made all the more incredible when you realise the money for this
comes from his own funds...
...Instead of offices and staff, they have a small room in their
apartment set aside for the job of catering for the hungry hordes
who sleep in parks, bus shelters and pigeonholes around the city
and inner suburbs...
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...Rose Bay local Jeff Gambin has been honoured on a national
level by being presented with a 2000 Australian Humanitarian
Award...
...As it stands, the Gambins have spent $300,000 of their own
funds on their work. They receive absolutely no government assistance,
and they rely on the generosity of occasional donations...
...It's a mammoth effort from two people: 16-hour days collecting
ingredients (up to 180 kg of food a day), cooking, transporting
and then serving it up to the hundreds who meet them at a handful
of city locations each night...
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...Jeff Gambin is one of Sydney's great treasures.
Each night, he and his wife, Alina, load up their Range Rover with
food they've cooked themselves and leftovers they've collected from
restaurants, and set out to feed the growing ranks of Sydney's homeless.
It's good food, too: pastas, roasts, vegetables and stews. They
are out there every night without fail, some nights feeding 300
to 400 people...
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