Neighbours star Madeleine West volunteers at a food bank amid the coronavirus pandemic

Neighbours star Madeleine West is known for her dedication to charity work. 

And the mother-of-six, 39, hasn’t let the coronavirus pandemic stop her from continuing to help those in need. 

Sharing a post to Instagram on Tuesday, Madeleine revealed she’d spent time last week volunteering at Melbourne’s Asylum Seeker Resource Centre food bank. 

The  brunette beauty uploaded photos of herself inside the food bank packing boxes, stacking shelves and posing with the daily menu.   

‘Refugees and asylum seekers were ushered in just 2 at a time from a queue that would stretch for hours, to choose from two weeks of goods left to feed over 300 desperate families,’ Madeleine wrote. 

‘This is coronavirus and it hits the stateless hardest, those who are now staring down the very real possibility of no food AT ALL for the next few months,’ she continued. 

Madeleine went on: ‘No Medicare. Zero income, No access to adequate housing, up to 700 everyday visiting this site for what scant groceries remain.’ 

Madeleine revealed that the pandemic has forced the food bank to stop serving daily hot lunches to those in need.

She went on to describe the plight of refugees and asylum seekers in the wake of coronavirus. 

[They have] one roll of toilet paper per week, one tin of lentils per person per week, a half cup of rice.. and still many of us are scouting supermarkets stockpiling sorbent…???’ she wrote. 

Madeleine completed her post by encouraging others to volunteer, even if it means risking getting coronavirus themselves.

‘Often those who perceive a risk too great because they have so much to lose actually have the least,’ she warned.