MORE than 120 volunteers gathered at Cooroy School Hall on Saturday 10 December to lovingly pack 210 Christmas hampers for local families.
The annual Basket Brigade packing day is always a stark reminder of those who so generously give all they can to help those who may not have a Christmas as special as many other people.
Working like a well-oiled machine, each volunteer packed food, presents and, of course, a Christmas pudding into a hamper that was then delivered that same day to families from Caloundra to Cooroy.
The families had been nominated by organisations such as Sunshine Butterflies and local churches and were families that may have been too proud to ask for help and weren’t already receiving a hamper from another organisation.
This year the Basket Brigade team hoped to fill 200 hampers but were able to beat that goal and help an extra 10 families thanks to the generosity of Noosa residents – a total of 649 people.
