Community & Business
7 April, 2022
Donation helps fill community pantry
IN a gesture of support, the Mareeba Islamic Society has donated $1000 to the Mareeba Community Centre to help fi ll some of the empty shelves in their Community Pantry.
The Mareeba Community Centre has been operating a Community Pantry for several years, providing essential items to people in need at cheaper prices.
Recently however, they have been hit with some supply issues and are struggling to fill their shelves as well as they had previously.
Nur Bajramovic and Allma Murat from the Mareeba Islamic Society stopped into the centre last week to hand deliver the $1000, a donation from both the mosque and its community.
Centre front office coordinator Ashlee Wilkinson was on hand to receive the donation and spoke about some of the issues they had run into.
“We have been struggling to fill the pantry because we cannot buy in bulk, before we could buy 50 of an item whereas now sometimes we can only buy 10,” she said.
The pantry stocks items from food and fresh produce down to parenthood essentials like nappies, all at a discounted price. “This money will be going straight towards the pantry,” Ms Wilkinson continued.
“Whatever food we get in also goes straight into the pantry.”
If you would like to help stock the shelves at the centre for people in need, just stop into the centre with a money donation or food donation for the pantry. The centre is located at 39 Byrnes Street, Mareeba.
