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During the course of 2020, Air New Zealand has donated more than one million items to organisations around the country. This week, the airline donated more than 6,400 items of bedding, crockery, amenity kits and kids inflight packs to the Middlemore Foundation – a charity funding important and life-changing initiatives to help those in need in the South Auckland community and throughout Aotearoa – bringing the total number of donations for the year to just over one million.
Since May, Air New Zealand has donated more than 190,000 Cookie Time cookies, almost 9,500 bedding items, around 9,600 inflight goods (amenity kits, crockery and kids inflight packs) and close to 800,000 dry goods (muesli, crackers and fudge) to 33 organisations and charities including Christchurch City Mission, Christchurch District Health Board, Christchurch Food Bank, Christchurch Salvation Army, Eat My Lunch and many more.
12 Days of Christmas: Middlemore Foundation - heart-shaped garden shows Covid-hit community the love
22 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
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Paige Dobbs: Spending time outside the classroom had a huge impact on all of us out here. Photo / Greg Bowker
NZ Herald
By: Jennifer Dann
The Herald is profiling 12 charities awarded $8333 in grants from Auckland Airport s Twelve Days of Christmas programme – now in its 13th year. The $100,000 funding comes from generous travellers who donate money at the airport.
In the grassy hills above the Manukau SuperClinic, there is a heart-shaped garden called Te Maara Kai o Wirihana designed to feed and nurture its local community.
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Women’s Refuge
Middlemore Foundation CEO Sandra Geange says the Air New Zealand items will be distributed to people in the community who need it the most. The donation of the crockery, amenity kits, bedding and kids’ inflight packs from Air New Zealand is a very kind gesture especially around Christmas time when people need even more support. We will get these items straight out to tamariki and whÄnau in need in South Auckland. Massive thanks and appreciation to the team at Air New Zealand!
Air New Zealand Chief Customer and Sales Officer Leanne Geraghty says the idea to donate the surplus goods came from the airline’s staff.