These women traveled 4 hours with 5 trucks of supplies to cook meals for exhausted Australian firefighters

The women of the Australian Islamic Centre drove five trucks full of donated supplies to help bushfire victims -- before cooking breakfast for 150 firefighters

The group from Newport, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, filled five trucks full of donated supplies and raised $1,500 in only 48 hours. They traveled, along with other volunteers, more than four hours to distribute the supplies to victims, according to Rashid Elhouli, who oversees online public relations for the Australian Islamic Centre.They didn't stop there. When they arrived to Johnsonville, the ladies cooked breakfast for 150 firefighters.

They used social media to get the word out that the center was collecting supplies such as female hygiene products, water bottles, milk, baby wipes, and fresh fruit. On Friday after prayer service, the center hosted a sausage sizzle, selling plates of food to raise money for the bushfire victims. The event was originally scheduled as a fundraiser for their youth program."The money was meant to go towards girls youth activities," said Elhouli.

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