Wendy Perkins sheds tears of gratitude when she speaks of the charity that helped get her emergency accommodation extended. But many Northern New South Wales flood victims like her still need help.
A charity running flood support hubs across northern New South Wales says thousands of people still rely on its services and more funding is needed to keep it open.A charity says thousands of people are still in need of the hub's servicesFor these flood survivors, emotions remain raw and tears flow readily.
Wendy Perkins sheds tears of gratitude when she speaks of the Chinderah hub's staff, who worked to secure an extension to her emergency accommodation so she could remain living in her community."Those people in the government need to come here and see what is happening to a lot of the community," Ms Perkins said.
"They still have thousands of outstanding cases, there's still dozens of people in those community hubs every day," Mr McNamara said."It can't just be that they are put onto some unnamed person on the phone in a government department." This money was separate to the $800 million Resilient Homes program announced in October last year, which included $40 million for program management, case-management teams, home assessments and legal services.
"We are helping people get back on their feet so that they can get on with their lives, get back to their jobs," he said."The help that we are able to offer is so cost effective, if a government service had to step in and do what we are doing would be magnitudes higher." Ms Saffin said organisations would be able to apply for funding under a new $1 million community grants scheme set to be overseen by the Northern Rivers Community Foundation.
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