Over 20,000 people suffer from poverty or food insecurity in the Border and North East region.
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This means that organisations like Albury Wodonga Regional Foodshare are constantly struggling to keep up with demand.
But thanks to $180,000 in grants from a number of donors, Foodshare has a new cool room and two new vans.
Albury Wodonga Regional Foodshare chair Simon Welsh said the new equipment would allow the organisation to put more of a dent in the region's food insecurity issues.
"These sort of facilities through the funding of these donors are just absolutely essential for us to keep people fed," Mr Welsh said.
"This has been invaluable for us, as a baseline people don't have a broad perspective on how bad food insecurity is in our region.
"Meeting the demand of the number of people that need food and go hungry from a day to day basis has been a real stretch for us."
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Mr Welsh said demand had increased significantly for their services since JobKeeper payments had started scaling back. "JobKeeper was sort of keeping a lid in a sense on demand last year and once that band-aid came off a lot of people are really having to make hard decisions," he said.
"What have I got to sacrifice to feed my kids this week?
"That's where our services with these extra facilities can come in and keep people fed, keep those children fed and keep them going to school and we can start to break that cycle of poverty."
Mr Welsh said Foodshare were distributing roughly 5000 meals a day.
The cool room itself presents the organisation with not only a means of providing food for people, but quality, healthy ingredients.
"Fruit and veg and all those sorts of things aren't cheap these days and that's what people need, to not just eat but to eat healthy," he said.
"I joined Foodshare about 18 months ago and we were really in a tough spot in terms of having the facilities and having the capability to meet demand and this kind of investment from our donors just changes the game for us."
The organisation's chair said the vans and cool room had also been a shot in the arm for volunteers.
"You feel like there's a recognition of the value of what you do here, it's like a great big pat on the back," he said.
Wodonga Council, Albury City Council, the Rotary Club of Albury, Border Trust, Albury Connected Communities, Baker Motors and 2AY 1494, The Geoff and Helen Handbury Foundations, Australian Communities Foundation, the NSW government and SS&A all made contributions.