Anchor Community Care Ltd.

When Mia first arrived at MyLife, she barely left her unit.

Cooking. Budgeting. Talking to a landlord. Things most of us picked up without noticing, she had to learn from scratch, in her own time, with people who stayed the course with her.

Two years later, she walked out knowing how to do all of it. And more importantly, she walked out knowing she could ask for help without it disappearing.

Right now, there's an empty building in Melbourne's South East waiting to become that place for the next group of young people.

Your donation before 30 June helps make it ready.

Help open the door: https://anchor.org.au/eofy-appeal-2026/

Mia arrived at MyLife not knowing how to cook a meal.

She left two years later having signed her own lease, managed her own money, and built a life no one had prepared her for.

She's not a rare exception. She's what happens when young people get what most of us take for granted: a stable home and people in her life who don’t disappear the next day.

Over five years, not a single young person who has completed MyLife has exited into homelessness.

We're raising $350,000 to make sure more young people like Mia get that same chance, in a new Hub opening in Melbourne's South East.

https://anchor.org.au/eofy-appeal-2026/

Anchor are All In for Reconciliation ⚫🟡🔴

Anchor is committed to supporting the national reconciliation movement and its efforts to promote equity between all peoples of Australia, and the process of solidifying the Victorian Treaty recognising all prior ownership of land and injustice experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Read more on our website: https://anchor.org.au/about/ -reconciliation-action-plan

Every year on 26 May, we mark National Sorry Day to remember and acknowledge the mistreatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were forcibly removed from their families and communities.

We take this time to honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, their culture and their families, and acknowledge the intergenerational trauma that still affects many First Nations families today.

"When you grow up in residential care, you know from a young age that there's a deadline looming."

The day you turn 18 is the day the system stops.

"You don't know what comes after. You just know it will end."

Mia came to Anchor's MyLife Project as a teenager. One of the first things she asked her youth worker was: "How do I turn the oven on?"

No one had ever cared enough about her to show her.

At MyLife, she finally found time, stability, and people in her life who didn't leave the next day. Two years later, she signed her first lease. In her own name.

We're raising $350,000 to open a new MyLife Hub in Melbourne's South East, so that more young people can get what Mia had.

Help open the door:
https://anchor.org.au/eofy-appeal-2026/?utm_source=eofy2026&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=fundraising2026&utm_content=post2

When you grow up in residential care, you know from a young age that there's a deadline coming.

The day you turn 18 is the day the system stops.

For around half of all young people leaving state care in Victoria, what follows within three years is homelessness.

The system ends abruptly, and nothing takes its place.

Anchor's MyLife program changes that. And right now, we have the chance to open a new Hub in Melbourne's South East, giving young people a real home and real support for the next decade.

Watch the story. Then help us open the door.

Act now: https://anchor.org.au/eofy-appeal-2026/?utm_source=eofy2026&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=fundraising2026&utm_content=post1