Cowra’s Major Cathryn Williamson has been overwhelmed with the response to her call for the community to put together hampers for the Christmas period.
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Major Williamson thanked all who had help the organisation, saying that with their support hampers would be delivered to more than 50 families this year.
“We’ve had a good response to the itemised list for hampers,” she said.
“Thank you to those who have taken the time to go shopping and those who have given cash donations to purchase items for hampers.
“If the community still wants to put together a hamper they can, if it’s not used at Christmas we can use it into the new year when our regular assistance line is closed.
“We normally have a supply of hampers in the cupboard through out the year, that’s why we have non-perishable items, so that it is there for us to use at all times,” she said.
Major Williamson said with the community knowing the cost of hampers and having an itemized list of items for hampers had helped encourage people to give back to the community.
“Having how much a hamper costs, let’s people go, we could give the cash to make a hamper,” she said.
“I had one family with two kids and each of the children provided a hamper. They had some money so mum took them shopping because they wanted to give something back to the community.”
Major Williamson said the community could continue to donate hampers or items off the list throughout the year at the Salvation Army in Macquarie Street.
She also said their was still time for the community to donate toys for children in need with the Ray White Little Ray of Giving continuing until December 21.
Hamper items that can be donated include products like 1.2kg of Weet-Bix, one litre of longlife milk, a jar of spread, 500 grams of pasta, a jar of pasta sauce, a large can of soup cans of spaghetti, baked beans, peas, corn, carrots and beetroot, cans of fruit, one Longlife custard, two jellies a small fruit cake and one litre of make up cordial, a can of tuna or salmon, a packet of lollies and a packet of chips.
Donated gifts need only be unwrapped and placed under the Christmas tree at Ray White Cowra.
Major Williamson thanked the community for their ongoing support for all of the Salvation Army’s work and invited them to attend the Salvation Army’s Christmas Day service, 9am at the Salvation Army Hall.
