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In a move to help vulnerable households, the total funding distribution for foodbanks in the region by the Community Trust of Mid and South Canterbury in 2021 has come to $121,900. The trust decided to broaden its support in an effort to combat food poverty in 2019 and set up an invitation-only funding round. After community research and discussion eight main foodbanks were identified and contacted and all eight applied in 2019, and in February 2020, were granted multi-year funding by trustees.. St Andrew’s Food Bank Geraldine, Presbyterian Support South Canterbury (PSSC), St Vincent de Paul Timaru, The Salvation Army Timaru, The Salvation Army Waimate and Foodbank Canterbury have all benefitted from the funding.
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A Salvation Army report reveals the much-vaunted economic recovery is painfully uneven, with young people, Māori and Pasifika left behind. This is the story of just one struggling family. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is hailing New Zealand s relatively strong job market as the “envy of many countries”. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to 4.9 per cent in the December 2020 quarter, down from a Covid lockdown-driven peak of 5.3 per cent three months earlier. But that s not what Salvation Army social workers are seeing out on the street, according to the welfare organisation s state of the nation report published this morning. It s not what Dave Letele and his team at BBM Motivation in south and west Auckland are seeing. And it s certainly not what unemployed father-of-eight Ray Milovale is seeing.