Club leaders visit Cabonne towns to distribute Orange Ex-Services' Club's $205,000 Unite and Raise funds to flood victims.
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00:00 the evacuation center and what you did was phenomenal.
00:03 I think up until we did have groceries and stuff.
00:07 - We're still doing it, we're still doing it.
00:08 We're still doing groceries being used now,
00:09 we're still doing blankets.
00:11 - Yeah.
00:11 - The cupboards are full of groceries.
00:13 - Yeah, so we had no emergency services here
00:15 for the first 48 hours at all.
00:16 - You'd think that you'd see a lot of people
00:19 getting into the tunnel,
00:20 but we've still got houses here waiting on insurance
00:22 companies to come to the party,
00:24 to still get payouts.
00:25 We only just today got our figure for our fence here,
00:27 our retaining wall was saturated and partly collapsed.
00:31 And it's taken us to now to get someone to come
00:33 and assess it, to get a payout figure,
00:36 which is eight grand, which is incredible.
00:37 - What we can do as a club is,
00:39 we've got a great Christmas market coming up
00:41 at the end of the year,
00:42 we really wanna make that big.
00:43 We wanna do the fence, we wanna do things
00:45 where we can bring people together,
00:47 so they're not isolated,
00:47 so we can work on their mental health.
00:50 Whether it's here at the club,
00:51 or whether it's up at the showground,
00:53 we just wanna keep doing fundraisers
00:56 where they can come and contribute
00:57 whatever they can in their time,
00:58 in their whatever,
00:59 so that their self-worth is still there.
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