Call to arms for Far North Queensland
THIS coming Monday afternoon two full road trains and a team of volunteers will begin the 1600km journey to a Far North Queensland community called Four Ways.
The community was all but completely washed away in the February floods, demolishing the majority of Far North Queensland's livestock population.
Four Ways Burke and Wills Roadhouse manager, Shauna Johns, reached out to a number of charities for some female care packages before Chinchilla based charity, Drought Angels heard her call for help.
Within a couple of days Drought Angels Tash Johnston and Jenny Gailey assembled a small army and have managed to locate two road trains and have packed 50 pallets to the brim with every piece of food and equipment this community have lost.
Now all these angels need is more hands to provide assistance to the stations who are still in the midst of cleaning up and reassembling their lives.
"It's not going to be pretty and it's certainly not going to be fun, but it's going to make a lot of difference to the locals who have been through hell these last couple of weeks,” Ms Johnston said.
"We specialise in helping back of beyond place that otherwise get forgotten and we don't ever do anything by halves,
"We decided if we were going to help we were going to try and make a huge difference to the community,” she said.
Since putting the word out there, Ms Johnston said the Drought Angels have had 12 volunteers put their hand up for the 10 day trip as well as dozens of Chinchilla people dropping into the Malduf Street headquarters with their baked donations.
"We've been blown away by the generosity of this town. Chinchilla is a always a very supportive community,” Ms Johnston said.
"But it would be great if we could take 20 people up so we can get as much done as we possibly can,” she said.
The 16 hour drive will be leaving from the Drought Angles' Chinchilla base on Monday, February 25 after 3pm and will be returning Thursday, March 7.
If you or anyone you know would like to take part in the flood relief trip contact Drought Angels on 0436 343 463.
Time is of the essence as numbers need to be finalised by this evening, Saturday, February 23.
To make a donation to the Drought Angels' North West Queensland Flood Appeal, follow this link.
