Cyclone Relief in Innisfail, Australia
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WHILE cash donations continue to flow in to Cyclone Larry-affected areas, charities are preparing their own convoys of trucks to deliver essential items.
The Salvation Army is spearheading the drive to collect in-kind donations, particularly for bedding and personal items.
Major Bruce Harmer said up to eight trucks would leave from Townsville this morning for Innisfail laden with beds, bedding, white goods and other items.
"People have been sleeping on the floor in the wet and these will be much-needed items," Major Harmer said.
"The whole community has been very generous."
Article - Courier Mail
posted by Naomi at 11:30
3 Comments:
oh my! those pictures!!!
12:20 pm
It's all so tragic. There are just so many natural disasters happening lately! It's a good thing that charities (and especially the Salvation Army!) are out there helping. Those families need to know that there's someone out there that cares.
2:20 am
Just to add to this... I went to a SAGALA training weekend, and on the Saturday night, a salvo from I'm not sure where, went up during the first week of the relief because he is a firey - but he works mostly in relief effort and clerical work. He said that on the first day, they were told at 10pm that in the morning, they had to deliver 6000 breakfasts to stranded people by 7am. They had to find the food firstly, which had to be brought up from Melbourne... they couldn't deliver it to the airport because it was flooded, they couldn't take it by truck for the same reason, and there was a shortage of helicopters and landing places. Basically, it was amongst many seemingly impossible tasks... they achieved the breakfast run by 11am the next day. So it took longer, but people got food that day. He also said that the damage was much worse than TV and media present - the relief team he was part of literally slept about 3 - 5 hrs a day for an entire week and the days were full of mentally draining problem solving. Keep praying for these affected people!
8:13 pm
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