{"id":24877,"date":"2025-12-02T12:49:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T01:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/?p=24877"},"modified":"2025-12-02T13:13:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:13:30","slug":"claires-children-had-a-magical-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/claires-children-had-a-magical-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks to you, Claire&#8217;s children had a magical Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":true},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":true},"author":102,"featured_media":24882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","post-password-required","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"formatted_date":"December 2, 2025","raw_html":" <section class=\"lg:py-6xl section theme-dark\" data-pb-label=\"Section\"> <div class=\"container grid items-center lg:grid-cols-2 gap-x-4xl\" data-pb-label=\"Container\"> <div class=\"column mx-auto\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"> <h1 class=\"leading-none mb-0 text-center\"> <font color=\"#f2f2e2\" class=\"\"><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(242, 242, 226);\" class=\"\"><span class=\"text-secondary\">Thanks to you,<\/span> Claire's children had a magical Christmas<\/span> <\/font> <\/h1> <\/div> <div class=\"column\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Web-tile-image-DR-Lnading-page-572x410px-2.png\" class=\"lg:h-96 mb-0 object-cover w-full h-64\" \/> <\/div> <\/div> <\/section> <section class=\"section section-rounded-top theme-cream bg-secondary\" data-pb-label=\"Section\"> <div class=\"container grid lg:grid-cols-12 relative z-10\" data-pb-label=\"Container\"> <div class=\"column lg:col-span-5\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"> <div class=\"content-block\" data-pb-label=\"Content Block\"> <h4 class=\"\">Your generosity makes life better for local families like Claire\u2019s going through tough times. <\/h4> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"column lg:col-span-4 lg:col-start-7\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"> <div class=\"content-block\" data-pb-label=\"Content Block\"> <p class=\"\">Claire is a loving mum of three who has been hit hard by the rising cost of living. Since her husband had to stop working because of illness, she\u2019s really struggled to put food on the table for her children.\u00a0 <\/p> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/section> <div class=\"section section-rounded-top bg-white\" data-pb-label=\"Section\"> <div class=\"container\" data-pb-label=\"Container\"> <div class=\"column\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"> <div class=\"content-block\" data-pb-label=\"Content Block\"> <p class=\" \">The family has had to go without. And that\u2019s been a terrible strain on Claire, especially at Christmas time when all she\u2019s ever wanted is to give her children a happy time full of good food and good cheer. Claire told us, <i class=\"\">\u201cNo one should go hungry at Christmas.\u201d <\/i> <\/p> <h5 class=\" h5\">The good news is that, thanks to your wonderful generosity, Claire and her children didn\u2019t have to go without this Christmas. <\/h5> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <section class=\"py-0 section section-rounded-top\" data-pb-label=\"Section\"> <div class=\"grid md:gap-0 md:grid-cols-2\" data-pb-label=\"Container\"> <div class=\"bg-white column flex flex-col justify-center lg:px-0 px-xl py-5xl md:py-7xl\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"> <div class=\"container-left content-block lg:pr-5xl relative md:ml-auto\" data-pb-label=\"Content Block\"> <div class=\"md:max-w-xl mx-auto z-10 max-w-xs\"> <p class=\"\">Because of your kindness, Claire received a Foodbank Christmas hamper. And that changed everything. She told us:\u00a0 <\/p> <p class=\"\"><b class=\"\"><i class=\"\"><span class=\"text-primary\">\u201cWhen you get a Foodbank hamper, you\u2019re so grateful for it. It helps to know that we\u2019ll be able to have a fuller table spread. Everyone can have a nice family meal.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b> <\/p> <p class=\"\">What\u2019s more, Claire isn\u2019t the only one who was able to feed her family this Christmas. \u00a0 <\/p> <p class=\"\">Your generosity helped make sure that thousands more families like hers received a\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0px;\" class=\"\">nutritious hamper. \u00a0<\/span> <\/p> <p class=\"\">Claire knows just how much that means to struggling parents like her. <span class=\"text-primary\"><i class=\"\">\u201cIt helps a lot of <\/i><span style=\"font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0px;\" class=\"\"><i class=\"\">families out, and some that are even worse off than we are,\u201d <\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: 0px;\" class=\"\"><i class=\"\"><\/i>she said.\u00a0<\/span> <\/p> <p class=\"\"> <br \/> <\/p> <p class=\"text-center mb-0\"> <\/p> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"hidden column px-0 z-10 \" data-pb-label=\"Column\"> <div class=\"content-block w-full h-full\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/foodbank.theteamserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/join-the-team.jpg\" class=\"mb-0 object-cover w-full h-full\" \/> <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"-mt-3xl bg-center bg-cover bg-no-repeat column md:rounded-none min-h-7xl px-0 py-7xl rounded-t-4xl z-10 md:mt-0\" data-pb-label=\"Column\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Web-landing-page-2.png');\"> <div class=\"content-block\"> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/section> <div class=\"section theme-cream section-rounded-top\" data-pb-label=\"Section\"> <div class=\"container\" data-pb-label=\"Container\"> <div class=\"column\" data-pb-label=\"Column\"> <div class=\"content-block\" data-pb-label=\"Content Block\"> <p class=\" \"><b class=\"\"> <h5 class=\"text-rimary h5\">Your kindness this festive season didn\u2019t just help mums like Claire put food on the table. It totally transformed Christmas. \u00a0 <\/h5><\/b> <\/p> <p class=\" \">Thank you so much for making it a happy Christmas for Claire and so many others. What a wonderful present to give! \u00a0 <\/p> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>","ACF":{"custom_facebook_pixel":"","disable_header":false,"disable_footer":false,"highlight_post":false},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/Web-tile-image-DR-Lnading-page-572x410px-2.png","author_name":"eliza.koduah@foodbanknsw.org.au","spinnr_header":"default_spinnr_header","spinnr_mobile_menu":"default_spinnr_mobile_menu","spinnr_footer":"default_spinnr_footer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24877"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24888,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24877\/revisions\/24888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodbank.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}