Helping our homeless and those in need
Instead of gifts for her 50th birthday, Jackie Galland who runs Giving Aroha in Anzac Park has requested donations to assist our homeless.
Nelson / Tasman
Jackie Galland is the beautiful soul who gives all her free time to helping people in need. She runs an entirely community funded group called Giving Aroha in Anzac Park. This group provides meals and essentials for our homeless people and those in need and has been running for over 2 years.
Every day you will find Jackie out delivering food and meals, warm clothing, sleeping gear and more. There are hundreds of people slipping through the cracks and without Jackie's organisation and help things would be even more dire.
With Jackie's 50th birthday nearing, in true Jackie style she has asked for nothing for herself - her birthday wish is for donations to provide food and necessities for those who need it. Even $5 would buy cans of food, bread, etc. Every single dollar counts.
Giving Aroha in Anzac Park receives no public funding and is entirely run on a shoestring by Jackie and her volunteers. With your help we can take the worry out of where the next meal will come from.
As a volunteer myself, I've witnessed the hardship and poverty, combined with the sincere gratitude and love of those who receive help. Let's rally together and be the change we wish to see, encompassing all our community and showing we are one.
Sophie Weenink Smith's involvement (page creator)
Volunteer for community funded group Giving Aroha in Anzac Park.
Use of funds
All money will go directly to providing meals and necessities for our homeless community and those in need.
Latest update
Thank you all so much! 2 September 2021
Hi everyone 🤗 When we started this page we never imagined it would go over $6000! There is so much good we can do with your generous donations. We send you all love and gratitude. The page will be active until the end of this month so please feel free to share the link. Who knows what heights we can reach from sharing!
Lots of love to you all xxx🤗😘💖💙💜💚♥️😊
Latest donations
Dear Claire and family, we are blown away by all your help for our streeties, thank you SO much!! 🥰😍 Your kindness throughout lockdown has touched so many hearts. You have provided love through your yummy baking and cooking and now your donation will help so many people. We are so incredibly thankful for all your beautiful generosity and kindness. You are very special people and we send you so much love and big hugs and gratitude xoxo Sophie and Jackie and the Giving Aroha team💞💐🤗❤️💞💖🥰💜💙♥️💚😇🙌😍💜💙
Dear Anna and Andy, thank you so much for your caring hearts and for everything you have done for Giving Aroha in Anzac Park 🥰💖 Your help means so much to all of us! Your kindness will go on to help so many people. We can provide so many meals with this money and really let those who need it know they are loved and cared for. Thank you so much for helping us raise awareness and for being incredible humans. All our love to you both, the Giving Aroha team xx🤗🥰💖😍💜💙💚💐☺️💜💙💚💞🤗
Dear Ella, this means so much to me and to all of us at Giving Aroha 💞💖💜💞💜 I am proud to call you a true friend and I am so excited about all we can achieve together. You are a very wonderful and kind human and I can't wait to see you on Sunday, when we can feed our streeties really good food and share the love around. Your amazing donation will go so far to helping many others. Thank you for being such a selfless and inspiring person. All my love and gratitude, Soph xxxx💖💞💙💚💐♥️😇🤩😍🥰💜💙💚❤️💐💚
Oh my goodness Alastair thank you SO much for your kind and caring donation!! 🤗💖 This really means so much to all of our team at Giving Aroha. We will be able to use this to make many people happy and well fed. One of the nicest outcomes from over the last few weeks is that, due to generosity from amazing people like you, our streeties are looking much healthier due to regular good meals. We wouldn't be able to do this if it wasn't for beautiful warm hearted people like you, so we send you much love and gratitude from all of us 💐💞😊❤️🙌💙💜💚💞🤗💚💜💙💐🤗💖
Wow Todd thank you so much for your beautiful donation 😇😍 When we set this page up we never imagined reaching $6000!! Thank you for entrusting us to make sure that this money reaches those who need it, we can provide meals and warmth from clothing and sleeping gear and more.Thanks to you we can put smiles on faces and let our streeties know that there is love and care for them. From all of us at Giving Aroha we send you love and gratitude 🤗💖💙💜💚♥️💓☺️😇😍💙😘💐💞💜💚
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