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A COMMUNITY partnership between a Millicent educational facility and a prominent bakery is helping support families in need.
For the past two years Millicent Community Learning Centre (MCLC) students have delivered leftover baked goods to residents, with the food sourced from Andy’s Bakery.
Bakery proprietor Don Tilley said the initiative allowed the business to help the community while minimising food waste.
“Every Tuesday volunteer Neville Wray comes and collects our leftover goods which we then give to the MCLC students,” Mr Tilley said.
“Bread, pasties, buns, that sort of thing to help them out.”
MCLC coordinator Gemma Winterborn said students delivered the goods to families in need in the community, with some recipients considered in critical need of support.
“When the goods arrive at the MCLC they’re packaged up and assigned to case managers who then put them on a distribution list of families doing it rough for our volunteers,” she said.
Ms Winterborn highlighted the support of Mr Wray, who has picked up the goods from the bakery and also helped students deliver the food.
