PICTURE a big pallet of non-perishable food and seven hundred dollars\u2019 worth of toys on the back of a long truck.<\/p>\n
This is what MaxiTRANS Ballarat\u2019s office team and 140 members of the factory\u2019s social club gave to the severely drought effected town of Trundle in central New South Wales, and its local Primary School at Christmas.<\/p>\n
Chris Liston, continuous improvement supervisor at MaxiTRANS Ballarat, and social club chair said the town needed \u201cdesperate help.\u201d<\/p>\n
The factory\u2019s donations were quickly combined with others, like pallets of water, from the broader national MaxiTRANS family and loaded onto a 22-pallet trailer just in time for 25 December.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe only had a week to get together,\u201d he said. \u201cOur New South Wales branch had a trailer going up at four o\u2019clock on the Monday the week before Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n
Originally a corporate initiative of MaxiTRANS NSW\u2019s sales department, Mr Liston said it\u2019s likely to become an ongoing partnership throughout the drought, especially on the approach to Easter.<\/p>\n
The appeal is an example to him of the ways in which people just pull together when anyone is experiencing trouble \u201cacross the board.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaxiTRANS workers help a lot of charities. When the chips are down people help a lot of other people, even though they\u2019re in jeopardy of how our market\u2019s going,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of good people who are pretty generous, even when times are tough here.\u201d<\/p>\n
MaxiTRANS Ballarat also recently fundraised to Buy Another Bale, to support Movember, and the 3BA Christmas Appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PICTURE a big pallet of non-perishable food and seven hundred dollars\u2019 worth of toys on the back of a long truck. This is what MaxiTRANS Ballarat\u2019s office team and 140 members of the factory\u2019s social club gave to the severely drought effected town of Trundle in central New South Wales, and its local Primary School […]<\/p>\n