ALMOST 40 boxes containing 1.5 tonnes of items have been sent to Kangaroo Island from the Balranald and Mildura communities.

Former Balranald Central School student Cheryle Chalmers, who now lives on the island, made the call out to her friends in the Sunraysia region and Balranald.

Her classmate, Jodie Gervasi, responded to the call out, with another woman, from Mildura, and her husband offerin...