'Struggle to put food on the table': Orange families below the poverty line

By Janice Harris
Updated July 3 2015 - 9:18am, first published 4:30am
HELPING THE POOR: Orange’s volunteers Maria Mate, Monica, Knight, Rosie Frecklington and Anne-Marie Bobin with John Oldroyd (back) have worked over the last few years to prepare and distribute food to the disadvantaged. 
Photo: JUDE KEOGH
HELPING THE POOR: Orange’s volunteers Maria Mate, Monica, Knight, Rosie Frecklington and Anne-Marie Bobin with John Oldroyd (back) have worked over the last few years to prepare and distribute food to the disadvantaged. Photo: JUDE KEOGH

ORANGE is not immune to the pressures outlined in the Social Services of NSW Cost of Living Report released this week showing one in seven children in the state is now living in poverty.

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