Monday, 5 July 2021, 3:07 pm
Despite huge numbers of families struggling to make ends
meet, communities across the country have taken action on
food poverty in greater numbers than ever before with New
Zealand's only online foodbank seeing a record breaking 500
percent increase in donations over the past year. But it’s
still not enough.
As winter sets in, The Salvation
Army is seeing incredibly high demand for food and is
expecting to give out 20,000 food parcels over the colder
months to people struggling with the essentials.
The Foodbank
Project, led by The Salvation Army with major support
from Countdown, provides an easily accessible way to top up