Panic-purchasers stripping supermarket aisles bare have left homelessness support groups unable to feed the city's increasingly hungry masses.
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As a result of restrictions on indoor gatherings of more than 100 people, Care Van and community kitchen director Lynne Graham has had to suspend her weekly sit-down meals at Wagga Baptist Church.
She has instead begun hand-delivering meals to those in need, but she worries her regular supply of fresh foods will soon be depleted beyond relief.
"I'm just picking up anything I can and taking it to where I know people need it," she told The Daily Advertiser.
"I can't give what I don't have."
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After the last community kitchen event, which was held in the open air on Wednesday night, Mrs Graham delivered 18 meals to families in dire need near Wilks Park.
"I really feel for people who are in food scarcity, where are they going to go? We've got a faith, so we know in the end God has an answer to this virus," she said.
"We have a hope that we will have a solution, but we don't know how long we'll have to go through this before we get that answer."
The situation has come at the most inopportune time for Mrs Graham.
As she readies to move operations to a new purpose-built warehouse, she had begun thinning her frozen stock to make for an easier transition.
But now, she cannot replenish the depleted items, and the steady approach of colder months means there will be more meals to provide.
"Our meat supply is running down, now I can't get any meat at the supermarkets. We got the last three loaves of bread at Coles [on Wednesday]," she said.
"We didn't get a drop off from Aldi this week, the word I heard was they had nothing to give away.
"We're all at a standstill, we're all stuck with it."
With much of the city now entering voluntary isolation, Mrs Graham has also been left with few hands to help her get the meals out across the city and is appealing for brave volunteers to join her.
Similarly, the Uniting Church's drop-in centre has been recently inundated with residents who can no longer find food for their tables, and are in need of help to get it to them.
Usually seeing up to 25 people during a big week, in recent weeks up to 80 people have come to the Johnson Street food bank in need of basic groceries.
"Produce is down considerably," said volunteer Linley Davies.
"We've got half of what we'd usually have. Usually, our bins would be full and there'd still be crates on the floor.
"We're now having to limit it to just one shopping bag [of groceries] per family, and even then it's gone in 10 minutes."
Without a constant supply of bread, the Uniting Church is having to consider whether it will be viable to continue its school breakfast service at Ashmont and Red Hill Road public schools.
"We'd go through 80 or 90 loaves a week normally, but we're just not getting the bread coming in," Mr Davies said.
"We're hoping to keep it going but we may have to stop it if it continues this way."
As a result of the social distancing measures and restrictions on large gatherings, Sisters Housing has had to cancel its inaugural luncheon fundraiser for those in need.
It was to be held on March 29 and would attract up to 350 guests, including many who are themselves living in dire circumstances.
"We do hope to hold it later in the year, but if that's not possible, it will be a great loss," said the manager of the initiative, who asked not to be named due to security concerns.
"Every year we help 300 women and their children, and the funds would have gone towards revamping our crisis accommodation and giving them the support they need.
"We do get government funding as well, so we're not entirely left without, but it would have helped."
A major part of the Sisters Housing's mission is building awareness around what it means to be homeless or living rough in Wagga.
"Rough sleeping looks very different in regional areas, a lot of the time its people who are couch surfing and staying with friends," the manager said.
"It's not only the person who is sleeping on a park bench or by the river. This lunch was about raising awareness for the services we offer, and breaking the idea that domestic violence is the only reason a woman might find herself out of the home."