Volunteers come together to celebrate DoSomething Day campaign
SEWING machines at Avalon have been working overtime, with a group of women volunteering to create more Boomerang Bags for the community as part of DoSomething Day.
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SEWING machines at Avalon have been working overtime, with a group of women volunteering to create more Boomerang Bags for the community.
While the Avalon Boomerang Bags group regularly holds sewing workshops on Tuesdays at the Avalon Recreation Centre to promote Plastic-Free July, a few volunteers gathered today to celebrate DoSomething Day.
The team sorted through Borrow and Bring Back Bags for residents to use when grocery shopping and Reusable Fruit and Vege Bags, which will be donated to Northern Beaches Council.
Volunteer Robyn Sherington said the Fruit and Vege Bags will then be handed out by council to members of the community at events.
“Council hasn’t specifically said when they’ll be handing them out or what people have to do to get a bag, but we’ll be handing them over fairly soon,” she said.
In Dee Why, the Dee Why RSL Club also celebrated the DoSomething Day campaign — an annual event highlighting the work of volunteers and those giving back to their communities — by donating $1 from every meal sold to the Bringa Women and Children’s Refuge, otherwise known as the Manly Warringah Women’s Resource Centre.
The support of the club follows a hearty donation to Street Mission by Dee Why RSL from a donation drive in June.
Dee Why RSL donated hundreds of non-perishable canned goods as part of the July 25 event — an initiative of the DoSomething Foundation, NewsLocal and Your Local Club — along with warm clothing and blankets.