Food drops planned for flooded north qld community
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Residents of a flooded community north of Perth have made a major effort to help each other by offering food a바카라사이트nd drink to those who are too far away from the flash floods which ha바카라ve battered parts of North West Qld.
More than 100 people have been affected by heavy rainfall in the remote village of Wurrawong on the Queensland and Northern Territory border.
A family in a town called Wurrawong have set up a website called Wurrawong Food Bank.
There are two mobile banks across the flood-affected areas, with an official calling it „an important initiative in our community to raise awareness about the potential risks faced by vulnerable Australians and to provide them with an easy way to donate and access emergency aid that might be of immediate assistance.“
Community leaders have given families and businesses a free range of canned food, milk, bread and other non-perishable items, but also a wide range of food from local companies and food banks.
A senior Wurrawong resident, from the northern town of Mucklestone, said while many people had been trying to help others, only about five per cent had made it to the shops as quickly as they could.
„I don’t think anything you do is really about saving money, so this is about raising the awareness and about making sure people understand that we do need a solution that will help, I guess, more people,“ he said.
Another resident, also from Wurrawong, wa바카라s just as critical of the community, saying it was „not about saving anybody’s life, it’s about helping people to survive“.
But the community is hopeful of making all the donations.
„Everyone is willing to give whatever, it’s not about trying to save anybody’s life, it’s just about saving lives for everybody,“ the community manager said.
„We think we have a much better chance of saving a lot of lives here than going out to buy them to a store, because if they have to buy a drink or an orange, they probably won’t have enough for other items, so we’ve just been there providing these foods, whether they will eat and are safe.
„At the moment, at least at the moment, I think we’re probably pretty safe,“ he said.
‚It’s not really about saving any lives, it’s more about getting those people food‘
Claire Whelan, who had helped establish the