The Aussies turning their arvo beer into much-needed drought support
But we may have just found one.
On the surface it doesn't seem much, but gee it's having a big effect on the morale of our desperate farmers who have been battling this drought year after year.
Drought-stricken families are running out of drinking and washing water. A Current Affair
Imagine not being able to have even the briefest of showers each day or wash your clothes?
That's what farming families face every day.
Water for cattle, sheep and crops ran out long ago. Now water supplies for people have run dry.
The Litres for the Land fundraiser started with a few mates at an RSL and has gone national. A Current Affair
With no money left, it's near impossible to buy a tank full of water for the farmhouse, given it costs hundreds of dollars which most families don't have because they no longer have an income.
They live off bottled water but a shower or washing is a luxury they can no longer have.
That's when a group of beer drinkers at an RSL club in New South Wales came up with an idea: what if clubs throughout the state donated a few cents from every beer to the drought?
It didn't take long for "Litres for the Land Appeal" to catch on. And now it's going national.
Each club through its drinkers is pouring money into the appeal which in turn is pouring water into those farmhouse tanks so families on the land can wash.
Mum Sally said the water was a gift of hope. A Current Affair
It's a simple gesture - a truckload of water is purchased and sent to a farm which has run dry. But it's more than just a truck of water.
It's hope.
That's what Sally found when one arrived at her parched farm and filled her dry home tank so she and her five kids could try and live a normal existence. It gave her hope that people cared and hadn't forgotten her and others on the land.
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