Covid-19 Help

Unfortunately we found out at the start of this week that 1 of our grant applications were unsuccessful. The longer this shut down stays in Wellington the more funding streams will remain closed due to how they operate that we can apply for financial funding to continue to operate.

At Alert Level 4, KCA has had to change how we operate (now contactless) and have had to shrink our volunteer work force of nearly 100 volunteers to a very small bubble of 10. Our dedicated team are committed to ensuring that our partner agencies clients have access to the necessities of life.

As there is so much panic buying our food rescue program from the supermarkets has seen a significant drop. Many of the families we are assisting can't stock up and many have no work due to all hospitality being closed, or cleaning jobs that are not deemed essential, etc.

Whilst their employees may be passing on the wage subsidies it barely covers their day to day essential of food after paying rent and power.

KCA have been blessed and humbled that some large companies have donated items such as hand sanitiser for us to share - Colgate Palmolive. NZ Food Network have donated breakfast cereals to us.

KCA has now totally run out of some staples that we store for local foodbanks across the Greater Wellington region - Upper and Lower Hutt, Kapiti Coast, Wellington City and Porirua areas in our warehouse in Grenada North for free.

A small contribution of $5 will allow us to purchase goods in bulk directly from some of our food sponsors - Countdown and Foodstuffs. This will allow us to top up and provide our partner agencies with some of the items they would like us to supply:-

1) Butter/margarine

2) Powdered milk

3) Sugar

4) Coffee

5) Tea bags

6) Tinned fruit

7) Museli bars

8) Crackers

9) Pasta

10) Tinned tomatoes

11) Pasta sauce

12) Soup

13) UHT milk

14) Shampoo

15) Conditioner

16) Raisins

17) Tinned corn

18) Tinned vegetables

This week so far we have distributed nearly 400 banana boxes of food to local foodbanks across the Greater Wellington region.