Generous residents of the Wyndham Grange Retirement Village in Tarneit have crocheted and knitted many items to sell in aid of the Iramoo Community Centre and people in need.
Residents from the village crafted the items, which they put together and displayed in the shape of a full-size Christmas tree, before selling them to raise funds for the Wyndham Vale community centre and its efforts to help vulnerable residents in the lead-up to Christmas.
Sales of the crocheted and knitted goods resulted in the village residents raising more than $500, which they used to purchase gifts and toys.
These have been wrapped and placed in homemade bags, for Iramoo Community Centre to give to people in need who attend its pop-up foodbank days in the lead-up to December 25.
Residents have also donated gifts to the centre, with more than 200 presents contributed in total.
But this was not all – village residents also collected six large boxes of food for the community centre to distribute among disadvantaged people living in Wyndham, during the pop-up foodbank events.
Iramoo Community Centre has thanked the Wyndham Grange residents for their generosity and also the Wyndham Women’s Support Group, for connecting them to the village in the first place.
The Wyndham Women’s Support Group is an organisation that provides emotional and social support to women from all walks of life, who live in the municipality.
