Plateau residents and visitors are being asked to offer meals, food and money to help maintain BlazeAid teams in the area.
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BlazeAid is a volunteer-based organisation that works with rural Australians after natural disasters such as fires and floods, helping them rebuild fences and other structures that have been damaged or destroyed.
The volunteers work in a disaster-affected area for many months, not only helping individuals and families, but also helping rebuild the local communities.
Their labour and expertise are free but they count on receiving support from local groups with food.
As Ebor is only tiny (population 166), the BlazeAid volunteers are hoping people in Dorrigo will help feed them.
Elizabeth Harrison from the pop-up Shop 44 in Hickory Street said she's been asked to raise awareness about the request.
"Ours is a pop-up shop front designed to raise money for people in need," she said. "Obviously, the chief need in the district is assistance for people suffering loss and damage from the recent fires.
"BlazeAid staff have told me they have lost their cooks and are now finding the provision of meals a major chore after long days of fencing and general clearing up.
"How can people help? Preferably, in these ways:
- Donation of cooked meals to be warmed up and eaten
- Provision of food that can be prepared as meals: vegetables, fruit, meat or chicken
- Money to buy supplies.
"We are aware there has been a great call on the generosity of local people and organisations to meet a variety of urgent needs relating to the effects of the bushfires," Elizabeth said.
"Sadly, this need continues for people, including families, who have lost homes, income, sheds, equipment, animals, fences, stock feed and pasture.
"At Shop 44 we are doing everything we can to help victims of fire and we are well aware that many other people are helping in their own ways.
"But the need continues."
People can leave offers of food, goods and money at Shop 44 (opposite Pam's Fruit and Vegetables), or, if the shop is closed at Noble Auto Repairs.
