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Gift helps offer a warm welcome

A FOOD truck serving up much more than meals has received a $4800 boost.
The Federation of Chinese Organisations from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos Association of Victoria made the donation to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) at Harmony Square in Dandenong on Sunday 1 May.
The federation held an Australia Day celebration in January at the Happy Reception in Ascot Vale.
The day included fund-raising for the ASRC Food Justice Truck, to commemorate just over 40 years of the Indo-China ethnic community settling in Australia and to welcome new asylum seekers.
The Food Justice Truck is scheduled to start serving meals in Dandenong later this year.
“We hope that the small contribution from the community would help to kick start the essential service for many new asylum seeker families in the area,” the federation’s president Tommy Huynh said.

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