A JIMBOOMBA business owner collecting donations for bushfire victims has been overwhelmed with the community's insurmountable spirit.
This bushfire season has already claimed 1600 homes in NSW and the ACT, with 672 properties lost since January 1.
Eucalypt Homes owners Darryl and Toni Bale launched their charity drive on Sunday, January 5, and have since been inundated with clothes, clothes, handbags, food and drinks.
The cut-off date for donations was Wednesday, January 8.
About 175 tonnes of donations will be trucked to affected communities
Ms Bale said donations were being trucked down to NSW including South Nowra and Sydney.
"We wanted to organise this community drive to help people down south," she said.
"This has had a profound effect on the whole community as the people in the local surrounding area wanted to do something.
"It has been so overwhelming with the hugs we have given out and the people crying out to help.
"A lot of people can;t give so they have volunteered their time. It is just absolutely beautiful.
"My volunteers are great and they deserve a medal."
Co-organiser Gina Lyell, from Obsidian Marketing Solutions, said the community support was humbling.
"We had unemployed people working beside polliticians, business owners and four-year-old kids," she said.
"We are all just humans and Aussies wanting to help our fellow Aussies."
Eucalypt Homes has been supported by an average of 100 volunteers per day to help sort and load donations.
Jimboomba Rotary club members also set up a sausage sizzle to feed volunteers onsite.
Donations have come from as far as Kawana Waters in the Sunshine Coast and Caboolture north of Brisbane.
Eucalypt Homes will accept donations until Wednesday, January 8 at 11am as volunteers continue to pack throughout the week.
Items not suitable for donation include electrical equipment, bikes, prams, crockery or furniture.
Eucalypt Homes is located at Margaret Street, Jimboomba.
For more information call 0414 272 568 or email office@eucalypthomes.com.au.
