By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
GOODWILL can be hard to find.
But in Endeavour Hills, it seems selflessness is a common trait.
This month local volunteer organisation the Andrews Centre, which helps many people in need, officially opened its new kitchen, which was renovated by the Endeavour Hills Rotary Club.
Andrews Centre manager Judy Martin said the organisation was incredibly grateful for the club’s $7000 donation.
“It’s a great help because, prior to the Rotary Club putting in the new kitchen, we didn’t even have a flue in the kitchen – it was a spa every time we cooked in there!” she said.
“It was very hot.
“So just having the flue made it so much easier to run our food co-operative.
“It was a lot easier to see what we were cooking.”
Ms Martin said the donation was the biggest renovation the kitchen had seen and came complete with a new moveable and multi-purpose bench.
“The only thing we had in the old kitchen that was good was the oven, which the Rotary Club had also put in a number of years ago,” she said.
Endeavour Hills Rotarian John O’Reilly said the club was impressed by the work the facility’s selfless volunteers did for the less fortunate.
“They work in the community, we work for the community, and these people are just doing amazing things,” he said.
“They are all professional people who have retired and they volunteer their time.
“We were so impressed with what they do, and we thought let’s not just do the kitchen but let’s also throw some money at them, too.”
