NAROOMA residents Bev and Jim Wilkinson are it again collecting goods for those impacted on by natural disasters – this time for the survivors of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu.
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The couple were on a cruise ship touring the Pacific Island nations and Port Vila, Vanuatu was their last port of call only days before the cyclone hit.
“I was so touched by the visit, we just had to do something,” Bev said.
“I keep thinking of the mothers with babies that don’t have anything – no formula or nappies.”
Previously, they have organised campaigns to collect goods for both the Boxing Day tsunami sending 1.5 tonnes over to Sri Lanka and then again for the Lockyer Valley floods a few years ago.
This time they have secured the vacant shop upstairs at the Narooma Plaza shopping centre thanks the Plaza management and Mark Anderson.
Bev and Jim plan on being at the store daily for the next two weeks to collect and pack items that they are counting on the community to donate.
They also hope to have a collection point at the Uniting Care Drop-In Centre in Midtown Narooma.
They are hoping for everything from non-perishable food stuffs like cans of food, as well as clothing, toiletries and even books and toys.
ABC Tissue Products in Sydney has agreed to donate a container load of goods to the cause and they have organised for a Bega transport company to get the locally donated goods from the Plaza up to Sydney.
Narooma locals can also make cash donations at the Red Cross centre at Midtown Narooma.
