RCC Lunchtime Meeting 4 August 2025

PLEASE NOTE:  This meeting will be our first back at the Commonwealth Club.

Start - 12.00 FOR 12.30. DRESS: Smart Casual, no jeans and a jacket required. 

Registrations are essential as the Club as specifically requested exact numbers of those who have registered. Unfortunately meals will not be served to those who haven't registered.

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Our guest speaker for Monday will be Mohammed Ali, from Helping ACT. Mohammed is one of Canberra's most effective and dedicated activists for helping Canberra citizens in need.

HelpingACT was established in 2018 by a small group of Canberra Citizens with the objective of providing benevolent support and relief to all vulnerable members of our community who are suffering from poverty, sickness, distress, destitution, disability or helplessness. 

Only four people started the organisation but now more than 40 volunteers work for improving lives of vulnerable Canberrans. All volunteers offer their time and effort completely for free. Volunteers come from different origins and social backgrounds. It is kind of a United Nation of humans bound together with a single thread of love and care for those in need. HelpingACT helps all without any discrimination of colour and creed. 

While the main focus of helpingACT is to address food insecurity in Canberra it also works closely with homeless, refugees, asylum seekers, domestic violence affected, and disabled. HelpingACT believes in mutual existence and helps and collaborates with other charity organisations. it  aims to achieve a day when no one sleeps hungry in Canberra, when no mother struggles to provide food for her children. 

.It provides free community dinners and lunches on weekly basis to all in need including homeless,  helps refugees with their settlement, international students by providing food and holds Ramadan Dinners each year.  It believes that poverty should not shadow a child’s health and education and runs a school breakfast program and provides once a week breakfast to eights schools and one college. It also works with first Australians and endeavours to promote mutual understanding between all Canberrans.

As members will see, Muhammed Ali and Helping ACT are truly inspirational and a wonderful support for our community. Please come along and hear more about what they do.