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Giovanni s restaurant owner to donate 1000 meals to Rotorua Whakaora
17 May, 2021 06:00 PM
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Rotorua chef and Giovanni s restaurant owner Deep Kumar is donating 1000 meals to the community this month. Photo / File
Rotorua chef and Giovanni s restaurant owner Deep Kumar is donating 1000 meals to the community this month. Photo / File If you can help someone, then why not? This is the lesson owner and chef of Giovanni s restaurant Deep Kumar learnt from his late father, a lesson that has inspired him to donate 1000 meals to communities in need this month.
Kumar lost his 61-year-old father Avtar Singh to liver cancer in May last year.
“The need is phenomenal, look at the number of people staying in motels,” he said. Peiffer said he had been working with Rotorua’s homeless for more than six years now, “and it’s definitely getting worse”. He said people were being squeezed between rising rents, utility and food bills. “It’s out of control,” he said. Chadwick’s stance was also backed by Professionals real estate principal Steve Lovegrove, though he cautioned any new properties needed to be built to target the right market.
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Rotorua homeless advocate Elmer Peiffer said the housing crisis was evident simply from the number of people in motel emergency accommodation.