Volunteers estimate they have cooked 60,000 meals delivered by jet ski, dinghy and private helicopter
The idea was to get what little food they could to those left stranded by the rising waters. Carried by a wave of community sentiment, it quickly morphed into a gargantuan food relief operation, involving much of Byron Bay’s hospitality sector.
But now, like many who have selflessly stepped in to bridge the gaps in the government’s emergency response, they are ready to hand over. “We are really exhausted, we haven’t stopped. The community has come together and no one’s stopped,” Sumbak says. “We have done all we can with the conditions we have been faced with,” he said on Monday. “I’m very sorry for all of those people who have felt they haven’t been supported. I empathise completely with their plight. The scale of devastation has been extraordinary.”
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