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Community Recovery Fund

Helping our community recover from challenges and disasters.

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About the Fund

On Tuesday the 13th February, Mirboo North & surrounding areas were unexpectedly hit by an incredibly powerful storm. 
The storm crippled the power infrastructure and knocked out the communications, flattened trees, tore off roofs and hanging branches and trees damaged many homes and vehicles. 

This Fund helps to:

  • Support mental health and wellbeing

  • Reconnect community.

  • Repair and replant our landscape.

  • Make homes and properties safe.


Most of the $95,000 received into the Recovery Fund has already gone back into local recovery projects, ranging from school-based trauma recovery for children, to resilience equipment for community spaces and events that allow people to connect and share their experiences.

Recovery In Action

Healing Our Environment

  • South Gippsland Biolinks Map – $10,000
    Funding to the South Gippsland Landcare Fund to create a Biolinks Map, guiding long-term revegetation and wildlife corridors after the February 13 storm.

  • Community Planting Day – $2,000
    Support for a planting day at the Shire Hall, where storm-affected residents received plants/vouchers and advice to replant gardens, with donated plants and Landcare support.

  • Storm Cell Recovery Assistance – $18,680
    Help to engage arborists and cover operational costs so the Storm Cell Volunteers could finish dangerous tree work on properties for residents unable to do it themselves.

 

Wellbeing Support

  • Building Community Resilience in Mirboo North – $7,898
    A trauma-informed mental health storm-recovery program at Mirboo North Primary School and Mirboo North Secondary College, delivered by MacKillop Family Services.

  • Project Ping Pong – $3,200
    A Year 9 leadership project at Mirboo North Secondary College to support students’ social and emotional wellbeing.

  • Healing Through Yoga – $1,054
    Yoga sessions for adults, children and teens to support trauma recovery and wellbeing 12 months after the storm.

  • Jingle in the Boo – $1,500
    New Christmas decorations for Ridgway and Baromi Park to bring colour and joy back to town after a hard year.

 

Make a Donation

If you would like to support the Community Recovery Fund, you can make a Donation.
If you would like to speak with us directly, please give us a call or send us an Email: info@mirboodistrictfoundation.org.au
Phone: 0418 301 092

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