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Groundswell Giving

As the skies turned red above Mallacoota and people struggled to breathe through acrid smoke, a wave of helplessness swept the country – and social media.

“It was 2 January that we had this surge of people turn to us,” recalls Arielle Gamble, co-founder of Groundswell Giving. “What we do is provide a way for people to transform their despair into action. The antidote to despair is action.”

Groundswell Giving is a

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