The drive gives the gift of warmth to community members who may be struggling this winter.
There is a range of coats, jumpers, blankets, doonas, bedsheets, scarves and more that have been donated by community members.
Moama Anglican Grammar school community members were among those who supported the drive, bringing in around 14 bags of donated goods that they had collected over six weeks.
Moama Grammar chaplain reverend Tim Bowles said it was a chance for students to live out the school’s values.
“For us as an Anglican school, it is about loving and helping others, and this is our opportunity to put that into practice,” he said.
“We really emphasise with the students that it’s really about living out our core values of compassion and respect, so we really wanted that opportunity for them to be able to help people who might need it in our towns.”
The students were approached by Rev Bowles about the opportunity to help out, and the students were happy to be a part of it.
They created a poster, which went out to the school community, inviting students’ families to bring any warm items they might not need any more.
Over the six weeks, families dropped their donations off to the school and students collected them from the office to be stored until they donated them during the second week of the drive.
The students who helped out included Year 6 co-curricular captains Holly Pritchard and Alby Bull.
They said it was an opportunity to “help the community out and help everyone get warm during winter” and that “it was a surprise to see how many (donations) there were” in the end.
Community spirit captain Cara Haley, a Year 12 student, said it was an easy task that would benefit many people.
“People didn’t have to go out to buy new things, they already had something warm already,” she said.
“It was an easy thing to do that’s going to have a big impact on someone else down the road, which will be nice.”
All three students said they would definitely support the drive again in the future.
A soup kitchen is also running as part of the drive, to provide guests with a warm cuppa and a meal, with extra meals available to be taken home if needed.
The drive will be held every Thursday for the remainder of June at St Mary’s Parish Hall from 10am to 2pm.
If you would like to donate a coat or blanket, they can be dropped at St Mary’s Parish Hall, the Riverine Herald, Echuca Neighbourhood House, Echuca East Primary School and Twin Rivers Primary School during June.
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