With floodwaters bearing down on the region and hundreds of homes at risk of inundation, students at Moama Anglican Grammar wanted to do their bit to help.
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After a sandbag station opened up at Jack Eddy Oval in Moama on Friday morning, students at the school approached their teachers and asked if they could go there to help.
Soon after, more than 40 students and about 10 teachers were on site helping to prepare sandbags for collection.
Some helped shovel the sand into bags, while others helped stack them on pallets.
The scene was one of many acts of selflessness seen in recent days at the three sandbagging stations set up in Echuca and Moama.
Since Thursday, hundreds of volunteers from across the community have united to help those at risk from the rising floodwaters.
From early in the morning until well after dark and at times in the pouring rain, people donated their time to help prepare sandbags, load them into cars, take them to the locations needed and set up walls of protection.
Side by side with emergency workers, people from all areas of the community were there to lend a helping hand.
Football and netball clubs organised work crews, parents and kids came together armed with shovels and others came on their own to do what they could.
Those who picked up sandbags for themselves returned later to help others as well.
The whole community came together in a giant act of generosity and resiliency to do what they could to help.
And their efforts were not in vain. While hundreds of homes may have been inundated, hundreds more were protected from floodwaters thanks to the sandbags prepared and distributed by the community, for the community.
It was hard work in difficult conditions, but the actions of so many in the community helped to protect and save so many others.