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
Press Release – Countdown Supermarket 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 …
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.
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Hamilton community centre manager Neil Tolan is grateful for leftover lunches from the Government s Ka Ora, Ka Ako school lunch programme, as is Kaivolution which helps distribute the lunches to night shelters and women s refuges.
When a cheese and mayo sandwich mountain lands at Neil Tolan’s door, he doesn’t complain. The Hamilton community centre manager is tasked with redistributing hundreds, sometimes thousands of lunches kids have snubbed from the Government s Ka Ora, Ka Ako programme.
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About 1000 cheese and mayonnaise sandwiches were dropped off at the Western Community Centre in May. Manager Neil Tolan said those who pick them up are hugely grateful.
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