The Two Rooms Project

Safe, secure and warm housing for Lismore

In the months following the disaster, during the coldest winter in years, Resilient Lismore focused on restoring ‘safe, secure and warm’ living spaces.

With thousands of people displaced, and a severe shortage of emergency housing, homeowners were living in houses without lockable doors, and without walls, windows, electricity or hot water.

Summary of Project

The ‘Two Rooms’ project emerged from the need for heatable spaces. La Niña was still lingering as winter arrived and people were living in damp and very cold homes with no internal walls. Resilient Lismore began to organise teams of volunteers to re-sheet two rooms of a home, so that people could have some level of comfort in a heatable space. The project began in May 2022 and since then volunteer-powered teams have worked on around 320 homes. In total, 117 Two Rooms volunteers worked more than 1000 hours during 2022 / 2023 on the ‘Two Rooms’ project.

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Thank you so much for coming and replacing

the walls of our ‘two rooms’. We are very grateful for your work and help. Thank you for leaving our place so clean and tidy. We enjoyed your company and are pleased you enjoyed your day in the country. Best wishes to each of you.

Greg and Pat McDonald

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Just a little note to say a big thank you

for your quick and ongoing community care and support in the aftermath of the floods. Thank you to each volunteer who their time, skills, and love to those in need. I appreciated your help in accessing services, connecting with people and your helpful online space, but most of all I appreciated your warm smiles and caring outreach of everyone in the hubs and online. Your community spirit and care is inspiring and an important part of Lismore and surrounds recovery.

Nina, Lachie & Isla

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Wow, this is a little note

of deeply sincere appreciation to your extremely generous benefactor and all those down the line helping. I have like so many others, been pushing against weariness and financial strain with the clean up and set up of the floods. To have help actually turn up listen, inquire, offer help restore and repair and in good time with few hoops was truly wonderful. It does restore the heart and makes me so thankful. Thank you so very much, a little kindness goes such a long way when it touches the tired heart.

Marian Fleming