Darwin’s Foodbank community and corporate relations manager Paul Wyatt said the organisation supplied food to 120 charities, which would normally equate to about 50,000 meals a month from the food it distributes.“Since COVID-19 hit it has gone up to 80,000 which is just huge,” he said.“We also have to get enough food to make more than a 1000 hampers and we were worried that we would have to purchase it from interstate, which is expensive and takes you backwards.“This is quite a bit up on last year when we did around 700 hampers.
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“I think COVID-19 has a big part to play in this because of the jobs that have been lost.“We definitely have more people looking for help. So we are relying more than ever on the local community this time around and they have been absolutely fantastic. “Interestingly we hear from people that they are staying in the Territory for Christmas and this has sparked their thinking about helping others in need. Donations are going well and we appreciate the support in our efforts to feed the needy this Christmas.“Both the public and corporate sector have been amazing.
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“Coles did their own store food drive for us last weekend and that resulted in 1.4 tonnes of food. This was added to the one tonne we have got from our food drives we have done with them. Woolworths have also brought in another tonne so these corporates have been fabulous.”
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