00:00Each year more than 60 volunteers put together hundreds of hampers and wrap hundreds of toys
00:10for charity Helping ACT.
00:13It's more like a celebration.
00:16Sana knows how it feels to receive these gestures.
00:20Her family arrived in Australia as refugees on humanitarian support less than two years
00:25ago.
00:26They do not want you to be hungry.
00:29The festive cheer is also being shared across Canberra's hospitals and community health
00:33centres.
00:34Look at this.
00:35It's amazing.
00:36Thank you so much.
00:37You're more than welcome.
00:38It's emotional when you have to separate your family and have a child in hospital.
00:42That's been the juggling act for the Tan family over the past month.
00:46He looks fine on the outside but he can be a little bit sick on the inside.
00:52What do we think Andrew?
00:55One year old Andrew has an invisible chronic illness and preparations for Givemas were
00:59a welcome distraction.
01:00It's nice to see that people actually care.
01:03Givemas donations grew from 500 to more than 12,000 over the past nine years.
01:08It makes you feel like you're not being forgotten.
01:11Mother of four Chantelle Summerill has been relying on this charity for close to a decade.
01:15And off we go.
01:16I wouldn't be here without them really.
01:18This Christmas half of the patrons seeking help from Uniting Care Kipax were new.
01:23The charity distributed around 3,000 toys, hundreds of essentials bags from Share the Dignity
01:29and 750 festive food hampers up from 550 last Christmas.
01:35It still wasn't enough to meet demand.
01:38It's terrible.
01:40We don't like to say no to anyone.
01:42Grappling with growing levels of hardship eased by the kindness of Canberrans.
01:47Rucible
02:05– And use these to make it easy for only sirs to buy things within the dishes.
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