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What's in a Blessing Bag?

What is in a Blessing Bag?

Travelled sized items are placed in a snap lock bag with a thoughtful note handwritten by one of our volunteers

Each bag contains:

TOOTHPASTE
TOOTHBRUSH
SHAMPOO & CONDITIONER
DEODORANT
SANITARY ITEMS
SOAP OR BODY WASH
MUESLI BAR

What we do

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Based on the Mornington Peninsula, Blessing Bags is a Melbourne-based initiative that assembles and distributes hygiene packs to those experiencing homelessness and/or disadvantage. The hygiene packs  contain essential personal care items as well as a handwritten note of hope and positivity so that the recipient knows that they are not alone.

 

Blessing Bags aims to provide access to essential personal care items that many people take for granted until they are presented with the  challenges of homelessness and/or disadvantage. Completely volunteer-run, Blessing Bags thrives on the support and donations from the wider community. To date, Blessing Bags has provided 14,000 Blessing Bags to those in need. 

Blessing Bags advocates for meaningful, evidence based policy change to end homelessness in Victoria.

 

Check out our research below.

Our Research

Our Inclusive Language Policy 2022
Our 2020-2021 Federal Budget Response
2021
Our submission for the Inquiry into homelessness in Australia 2021
Our thoughts: Affordable Housing Infrastructure Booster
2020
Blessing Bags Melbourne would like to acknowledge the Wurundjeri and Bunurong people of the Kulin Nation as traditional owners and custodians of the land on which we work. We acknowledge that the land was never ceded and we pay our respect to them, their customs, their culture, to elders past and present and to their emerging leaders.
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