A community pantry in Albanvale is seeking more community help to meet growing demand.
Families Helping Families Community Pantry was established last year by a group of local residents keen to help those in the community.
One of the volunteers running the group, Kerry Davies, said they were seeing many people seeking help regularly.
“We’ve been going about nine months now,” she said. “We can get between 50 to 60 people every Friday.
“We give out pantry products, clothes, toys and bread. There are a lot of people in the community that need help.”
At Christmas, the group gave out 190 gifts to families, while they were seeing more faces start to turn up.
Ms Davies said the group needs donations to help meet the needs of those in the community.
“The main thing we’re after is pantry things like pasta sauces, long life milk and things like that.
“People have given gift cards before and other people have done big shops and dropped it off.
“Hopefully we can get fully registered and get fruit and veg on board.”
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