Essential supplies: Guthrie Street Primary School business manager Jo Pickles with some of the items available free to flood-affected residents.
Photo by
Rechelle Zammit
The Guthrie Street Primary School community has banded together to help others in the community who have been impacted by flooding.
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The Shepparton school and the school council organised a donation drive for clothing for those who had lost everything in the floods.
Donations of second-hand men’s, women’s and children’s clothes, as well as linen, books, and shoes arrived to be given to anyone who needed them.
The school opened its gymnasium to anyone from the wider community to come and collect anything they needed on Saturday.
By Saturday night, the adult clothing had been taken to the evacuation centre at the McIntosh Centre.
Amazing work: Helping organise clothes that had been donated at Guthrie Street Primary School on Saturday were (back, left to right) Bec White, Jo Pickles, Natalie Ralph, Renee O'Loughlin, (front) Sally Nolan, 12, Eddie Nolan, 10, and Brody Ralph, 10.
Photo by
Rechelle Zammit
From Monday, the other items will be available at Mooroopna Park Primary School in Mooroopna, as Guthrie Street will need to use the gymnasium for students.
School business manager Jo Pickles thanked not only the school community, but the wider community for their donations.
“The response has been amazing,” she said.
“We were really surprised at how fabulous the community was.
“People came straight away and dropped things off.
“We’re blessed we live in such a community where people will help out.”
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