“You were guaranteed to walk away with something,” she said. “So many kids are going to go without this Christmas. A lot of people rely on this, and there’s nothing wrong with relying on this.”
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Samantha Lui has relied on the Mission for Christmas parcels for years, and says this year will be hard without one. Now she’s trying to figure out how she can still make Christmas special for her kids – it will probably mean delaying a car payment and going into debt, she said. “Some people say, ‘Don’t do Christmas,’ but you can’t do that to kids.”
Auckland City Mission s Christmas food parcel phone lines jammed, 42k calls in one day
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