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We lost everything in the bushfire: help the Orchard district start over
The bushfire damaged 55 homes in the Orchard district. We're raising funds for repairs, supplies and temporary shelter.
🇦🇺 New South Wales, Australia6,744 views
The bushfire hit the Orchard district on 3 July. My home was one of 55 damaged, and 3 families are still in temporary shelter at a borrowed warehouse.
The first few days we shared what little we had. Now the cleanup has started, but we've no money for materials and winter or the rainy season is coming.
Schools in the area have been closed, and the clinic lost its cold storage for vaccines. We're a small community of working families who have never asked for help before.
We have formed a volunteer committee, and I'm the treasurer, so I'll post receipts for everything we buy.
Funds go to building materials, water purification supplies, bedding, and food for families still in shelters.
Where the $4,650 goes:
• Roofing sheets and timber: $1,600
• Clean water and purification supplies: $780
• Bedding, blankets and mattresses: $650
• Food parcels for displaced families: $730
• Tools and labor for repairs: $890
Even a small gift gets used right away and I'll thank you myself.
- Elena
Updates from Elena
Update from Newcastle: the first invoice got paid this week. We're at 78% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us. - Elena
Good news. Because of your gifts ($1,855 in total) I made the first payment toward clean water and purification supplies. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.
- Naresh T. Kapoor 🇮🇳 · $250
“Wish I could do more. Thought of Elena all day after reading this. - Coimbatore”
- Souad Sara Maalouf 🇲🇦 · $250
- Zara Mahnoor Hussain 🇵🇰 · $250
- Seung-hyun Sung 🇰🇷 · $250
“Only $250 but hope it helps. - Seoul”
- Nova Fernandez 🇺🇸 · $200
“Good luck. Gave what I could this week. - Bellevue”
- Aarón Contreras 🇲🇽 · $200
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $200
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $100
- Anonymous 🇳🇬 · $100
“Best of luck. Hope the August deadline works out. - Epe”
- Axel Sjöberg 🇸🇪 · $100
- Riley F. Herrera 🇺🇸 · $100
- Ursula Clara Winkler 🇩🇪 · $100
- Theo Kaiser 🇩🇪 · $100
- Margaret Jepkoech Githinji 🇰🇪 · $100
- Greyson D. Wood 🇬🇧 · $100
- Rowan M. Jackson 🇦🇺 · $100
- Anonymous 🇧🇩 · $100
- Wirat Weerasak Ngamsuk 🇹🇭 · $75
- Susanne Kaiser 🇩🇪 · $75
- Noor Ellen Smit 🇳🇱 · $75
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Wishing you peace, Elena. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. God bless.
thinking of you and your family. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. God bless
Wishing you peace. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Wish I lived closer to Sukkur so I could bring a meal. Greetings from Rawalpindi.
Wishing you the best, Elena. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. Love from Dar es Salaam.
Thinking of you and your family. Hope this works out for you. Love from Ikeja.
Stay strong. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. After 28 years in hospitality I know how hard it's to ask for anything. Blessings.
Hang in there. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. Thinking of Newcastle.
Hang in there, Elena. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. I'm in retail myself and wanted you to know we're cheering for you.