WHILE the beef capital of Rockhampton was buzzing with vitality last week to welcome an estimated 85,000 visitors, it's easy to forget that a powerful cyclone ripped through the region just a matter of weeks ago.
There are still hundreds of essential items needed to help people recover from Cyclone Marcia's devastation, and late last week engineering and consultancy firm MWH Global donated $50,000 to assist in that recovery.
Australian charity GIVIT will manage the donation and CEO Juliette Wright was on hand to receive the cheque from MWH Global chairman and CEO Alan Krause at an event also attended by Rockhampton region mayor Margaret Strehlow.
The firm focuses on water and natural resources and had been working to deliver road reconstruction works across central Queensland since floods and cyclones had impacted the region in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, according to Mr Krause, who travelled from the company's headquarters in Colorado for the presentation.
"We have a strong affinity with Rockhampton and were distraught to learn the area had been hit again.
"We could not sit idly by while this community, in which we have become so invested, suffered."
Ms Wright said the donation would go a long way at a crucial time, providing items such as a new mattress for an elderly lady sleeping on the floor, clothes for a man who lost his house and all its contents, or a fridge for a young mother needing to feed her children.
Sally Cripps
Journalist
Journalist
