Virus job losses see Australians set up "take what you need pantries"

Alongside a busy inner-Sydney train line stands a second-hand cupboard stuffed with baked goods, canned food and toiletries, repurposed as a "give what you can, take what you need" community pantry.Set up in late March by housemates Maureen Lee, Michelle Gomes and Joyce Akinpe, the Newtown Blessing Box was a spontaneous response to the increased joblessness and hardship the three women could see in their community as the coronavirus pandemic took its toll."We were watching problems coming in real-time," said Lee, 39, referring to the first few weeks of the pantry's operation. "If you wanted READ FULL ARTICLE