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The Auckland City Mission says it s handing out just as many food parcels as it was during the peak of the first lockdown.
Kōkiri Marae’s Teresea Olsen won’t turn anyone away hungry from the pātaka kai. Especially at this time of the year. The food-gifting programme, based in the Lower Hutt suburb of Wainuiomata, gives out more than 250 food parcels each week but shuns the means-testing used by the established foodbanks. “Asking people why it is they don’t have enough money when they are on the benefit is absolutely stupid to me – you can’t live off the benefit.”