Kiwi Community Assistance

Working together to reduce inequality in our communities

Who we are

Kiwi Community Assistance (KCA) helps communities throughout Wellington by rescuing surplus food and household goods, and redistributing it to frontline agencies working directly with people in need.

We need more businesses to join our food rescue program. Please watch the video links below to learn more about what our charity does.

Food Rescue Video

What does KCA do Video

What we provide

Food that is rescued and donated is redistributed Monday to Friday with agencies collecting it from our depot
Clothing, shoes, children's reading books (we don't accept adult fiction/non fiction) , school stationery supplies, etc is collected by our partner agencies from our depot
Whiteware and furniture in good working condition directly from our donor's home by our partner agencies for their clients

How we do it

1 Collect donations from the drop off points (Please go to the drop off point tab for the most up to date info)
2 Donations are sorted
3 Agencies place orders
4 Volunteers make up the orders
5 Agencies take orders directly to the recipient

We regret to inform you that we are currently unable to accept any new applications for food assistance. Additionally, we are temporarily only accepting cots, unexpired car seats and baby capsules, nappy change tables in relations to furniture.

Food boxes

414

Banana boxes of food distributed this month

Non-food boxes

Clothing, toys, books, school supplies, etc, distributed this month

Emissions Saved

19260

Kilograms of CO₂-E saved, calculated from weight of food rescued this month

You can help us by donating...

Goods

These items include perishable and non-perishable food, household items and appliances, baby gear and clothing.

Funds

KCA has limited funding and we make any financial donation stretch as far as possible, no matter how big or small.

Time

We are always looking for volunteers to fill a variety of roles during the week and the weekend.

We are an independent group of like minded people working together to reduce inequality in our community. We will do this by providing household goods, clothing and food for free to our charity partners.