Getting Going Again

Stories come out about the despair and depression people suffer after these events. At one of our farmers nights, an elderly farmer attended after much encouragement and told the story of how he was going to simply give up. Sell what remains of the herd and get out were his thoughts as he sat in the house for days not willing or wanting to do anything, even go outside.

Another farming family lost near everything, without even a pair of fencing pliers on hand to fix the burnt fences and retain the animals that survived.

Then BlazeAid volunteers turn up and help these guys get back into it, they bring enthusiastic physical numbers as well as the tools and some much-needed materials. The general public and businesses donate all sorts of stuff that is passed on to the farmers, from fencing materials to dog food.

Working a fence, walking new wire past the destruction, seeing the child's bicycle, pause to clear one's vision.