You could hear the excitement in Pastor Peter Dover’s voice when he told the South Coast Register about an amazing community donation aimed to help the homeless.
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“A local family wants to donate $400 000 to buy a building for the homeless in the Nowra CBD,” Pastor Dover said.
Equally amazing as the donation is the fact the family does not want any credit.
Pastor Dover said the family was aware of the issue facing the homeless and wanted to do something to help.
For years, months, days and even minutes Paster Dover thought about how the community could help the homeless.
This donation means a lot to him and his team from Salt Ministries Bomaderry.
He and many others from local churches also helped set up the Safe Shelters Shoalhaven plan.
The plan gives the homeless somewhere to stay but will close on September 29 and people once again will be left homeless.
Pastor Dover said setting up the facility would take time but it was a wonderful step in the right direction.
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Community shows its support
The Shoalhaven community is always prepared to help people in need. Here are some other generous donations made in the past:
Business support the homeless
The reason a group of businessmen want to support the homeless is simple - they are concerned members of the community.
Sandy Wilson, along with Chris and Ben Hobbs, have all gone out of their way to support Safe Shelter Shoalhaven, which was set up to provide somewhere for the homeless to stay in Nowra.
Sandy Wilson has been a businessman in the region for 30 years and started Shoalhaven Recycling.
He said the time had come to give something back to the community and help those less fortunate.
Shark Tank
The region’s largest annual event aimed at helping homeless people raised about $70,000 in 2016 and in total raised over $100,000.
More than 100 people gathered at Nowra School of Arts last year to demonstrate their compassion.
On the back of last year’s event, 28 businesses signed up this year to help ease the region’s homelessness problem.
Quilter does her part
When avid quilter Dianne Croft was approached by a friend to donate some of her work to the partnership between the Shoalhaven PCYC and Bomaderry’s Salt Ministries to support the homeless her response was simple.
“How many do you want?” she asked.
Although Dianne runs a home quilting business at Worrigee, she ploughs all her profits back into making charity quilts.
In more than 40 years, she estimates she has made and donated more than 3000 quilts to charity.
Her latest donation to the PCYC was 50 quilts, both full sized and children's.
PCYC food drive
THE community’s generosity is leaving a group that helps people in need stunned.
Bomaderry based group SALT Ministries runs the Shoalhaven’s emergency response vehicle which gives support to people in need, including the homeless.
When the coordinators of the Shoalhaven PCYC heard what SALT was doing for the community they wanted to help.
PCYC Activity Officer Alia Hather said as soon as they announced they would be organising a collection drive to support SALT the goods rolled in.
“The donations have been coming in daily - all the time,” she said.
