RRT help with meals for Cyclone-hit Kalbarri

14 April 2021

 

The Rapid Relief Team (RRT) is helping provide breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as emergency RRT Food Boxes to Kalbarri locals displaced by Tropical Cyclone Seroja.

 

The team helped serve up more than 90 meals last night at the evacuation centre in Geraldton and will be providing further support through today.

 

RRT have also donated 35 of their emergency food boxes with another pallet (80 food boxes) on its way.

 

RRT Food Boxes contain a variety of non-perishable, long-life food that can feed a family of four for up to 48 hours.

 

There are estimates more than 50 per cent of Kalbarri’s buildings have been damaged by the Cyclone and thousands of locals are without power and other essential services in the wider region.

 

RRT is made up of volunteers from the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church.

 

Alex Sharpe, Western Australia Regional Team Leader for RRT, said it was Christian values of care and compassion that motivated them to help.

 

“While the region has been given the ‘all clear’ from the Cyclone, it is now the hard work in clean up and recovery begins.

 

The storm damage is significant with Emergency WA estimating it to be over an area 700km long and 150km wide.

 

“There is a shortage of supplies in the area over coming days, so we are only happy that we can help in a small way by providing meals to some of the hardest hit by Cyclone Seroja.”

 

Media enquiries: Bas Bolyn 0447 486 195

 

 

 

About the Rapid Relief Team (RRT)

The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church established the RRT in 2013 to express the Church’s principles of care and compassion. The RRT is staffed by Church volunteers who provide catering services at a range of charitable events and emergencies.

Globally, the RRT has more than 14,500 volunteers and operates in Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, France, the United States, Canada and Germany.