One Humanity Shower Bus

03/09/2026

Where all of your wonderful donations end up. Ready to be handed out

01/09/2026

📢 This week, our Youth Ambassadors are taking over our channels to highlight the importance of healthy relationships and raise awareness about domestic and family violence.

Family violence is one of the most urgent social challenges in the Ballarat region, with local incident rates 51 per cent higher than the state average. In Ballarat, police attend approximately six incidents of gender-based violence every day, with children present at 45 per cent of incidents.

It's for these reasons the City of Ballarat's youth volunteers, the Youth Ambassadors, chose to make family violence the focus of our 2026 project.

As part of our efforts to reduce the impact of domestic and family violence for young people in Ballarat, we are taking over Youth Services' socials this week. Keep watching as we post to educate young people on red and green flag behaviours to pay attention to, where to get help and how to support others experiencing DV.

Thanks to the Ballarat Foundation for keeping the conversation going with stats listed in our post.

Disclaimer: This campaign has been designed by our Youth Ambassadors to spark discussion about relationship portrayals in popular culture. It offers a starting point for conversation and reflection, rather than a comprehensive representation of all relationships.

If this post has affected your wellbeing in any way, please seek support from the following services:

➡️ 1800Respect 📞1800 737 732 – National sexual assault, domestic and family violence counselling and support services, available 24/7.

➡️ Orange door 📞1800 219 819 – Free family violence and family wellbeing support, information, assessment and referral services.

➡️ Safe steps family violence centre 📞1800 015 188 – 24/7 support, safety planning and crisis accommodation assistance for people experiencing family violence.

➡️ ️ Headspace 📞03 5304 777 – Free, confidential and anonymous mental health support for young people and their family.

01/09/2026

The Shower Bus is currently in need of:

Warm Coats & Jackets
Conditioner
Track Pants
Wet Wipes

All donations can be made directly to the bus at Camerons Metalland (115 Doveton St South Ballarat)
Tuesdays and Thursdays 6-8pm
Sundays 5-7pm

25/08/2026

Tonight on the Bus, we had a guest give our Volunteers a tiny duck each for Good Luck.
(Hopefully it helps us out)

We hope you have your tiny duck as well

24/08/2026

🚨 SOS: We urgently need tampons 🚨

Our charity partners have requested over 80,000 tampons - with just days left of August Dignity Drive, we’ve only collected 21% percent.

That gap represents thousands of people who may be going without one of the most essential items to manage their period safely and with dignity.

We recently heard this story from Maria:

“When I was a young single mother I used to leave my tampons in until I leaked and would also fold layers of toilet paper when out in public to make it last even longer.”

No one should have to manage their period like this.

If you’re heading to Woolworths Supermarkets this weekend, please consider picking up an extra box of tampons and dropping them into one of our pink collection boxes 🩷

Every single box helps restore dignity, comfort and confidence for someone doing it tough.

🛒 Find your nearest collection point: https://sharethedignity.org.au/what-we-do/dignity-drive

23/08/2026

19/08/2026

17/08/2026

Well Done Orange Sky Australia !!

Volunteers have seen a 52 per cent increase compared to last year. 🔗 https://links.acm.media/jiWuRi

✍📷 Nick Powell

12/08/2026

We are so happy to announce we are at capacity for Donations. All your wonderful items will be put to good use, but for the moment we cannot possibly fit any more in our storage shed.

Big thank you to everyone that has donated! ❤️