A donation of fruit will provide Typo Station clients and volunteers with enough fruit to eat for a year.
Typo Station is a youth development farm situated an hour from Wangaratta, which provides accommodation for participants in early intervention programs.
The donation of a pallet of canned peaches from SPC Ardmona will hugely benefit the not-for-profit organisation which spends up to $30000 a year on food costs.
``It is a huge benefit to us,'' Typo Station head of operations and outdoor programs Chris Ziebell said.
He said he was amazed by the generosity shown by the Goulburn Valley.
Typo Station is an old grazing cattle station at Cheshunt where a number of early intervention programs are run for people aged 14 to 20 years.
Though the programs are run in both country and metropolitan areas, they each involve interaction at Typo Station.
The signature program run for young men began in 1993 by Matt Pfahlert.
Matt lived in a tin shed on the Typo Station property for two years, working without pay, to restore the 100-year-old homestead back to its original glory.
Matt started a two-year program which included five weeks on the property where the men learnt blacksmithing and joinery among other things.
There are currently five programs being run: a schools' program to help students to continue studying from Years 9 to 12; a young men's program for boys aged 14-17 years; a leadership development program for boys and girls in Years 9 to 11; a Go Girl program for young women in Years 9 to 12 who have disengaged from a mainstream education setting; and a connectors program to help 14 to 20-year-olds upskill for future employment.
Typo Station marketing and development manager Sasha Molodtsov said she understood not everyone was able to make donations, particularly in these tough economic times.
``We're very grateful to the north-east community for all their support,'' Sasha said.
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