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Eva Wolf
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Out of school, onto the forklift

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In March a new group of boys from Tauranga Boys College begun our Life Skills Programme: the innovative training and mentoring programme for students who excel in an out-of-classroom learning environment. We offer them experience in the Good Neighbour kitchen, as well as training in soft skills related to employment. Doing practical tasks in and…

Nocturnal adventure

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Eva Wolf
Making a positive difference in our community – that’s what characterizes our sponsors. Like us, they want to be part of the solution and have committed to supporting Good Neighbour financially. A few weeks ago our team set up a magnificent event to thank our sponsors during a nocturnal adventure. In the bush in Pyes…

Awakening the inner Picasso

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Awaken the Picasso within you – is exactly what some of our attendees did with an art workshop facilitated by amazing artist and long-time friend of Good Neighbour, Andrea Green. Our objective as a Care Junction/Te Whare Manaaki department is to bring communities together that will provide avenues for better outcomes. One of the people…

Going for gold

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8,000 kilos of delicious golden kiwifruit have been devoured by Good Neighbour recipients over the last months. Thanks to the collaboration between Good Neighbour, Mpac packhouse and Zespri, we’ve been able to distribute amazing quality kiwifruit within the Bay of Plenty, with some of it going as far as Rotorua. Kiwifruit gold, also known as…

Cost of living crisis: Good Neighbour food rescue volumes drop

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Eva Wolf
From: NZ Herald, 22 May 2023 Donations to a Tauranga food rescue service are down 14,000kg a month and the city foodbank had to shrink food parcels – sometimes going without basics such as potatoes and onions – as its expenses soar by $10,000 a month. Charities trying to feed people in the city are…

Good Neighbour & Givealittle

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Eva Wolf
Here at Good Neighbour we believe that kindness makes the world go round (and not money). However, we can’t do what we do without hard cash. That’s why we’re stoked to see that we’ve landed the second spot on the top-5 charity list in Givealittle’s Generosity report.  Givealittle gives people the opportunity to do peer…

Volunteers move mountains…of beds!

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From: The Weekend Sun, Friday 21 April 2023 Volunteers have made short work of a mammoth job – and it’s prompted a call for more local businesses to offer their time to community projects. Tauranga charity organisation St Vincent de Paul was offered a warehouse full of beds and they reached out to Good Neighbour…

Sharing the warmth

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Eva Wolf
For our firewood team, the first months of the year always revolve around getting our firewood ready, especially dry, for the people in our community who struggle to get by. We provide them with low-cost firewood, for $50 they are able to attend a firewood day and receive 2m3 of wood so they can have…

Food rescue sector united & inspired 

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Eva Wolf
Last Thursday and Friday Good Neighbour hosted the AFRA (Aotearoa Food Rescue Alliance) Regional Conference sponsored by Foodstuffs, with 32 representatives from the food rescue sector across the Central North Island attending. The aim was to bring together regional food rescue organisations to connect, learn new skills and ideas to take back to their organisations,…

Many hands make light work

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Eva Wolf
‘’A thriving metropolis at the bottom of 15th Ave’’ is how many describe Good Neighbour; they are not wrong. Our dedicated team of 140 food rescue volunteers who receive and sort food from supermarkets, distributors, local markets, and cafes, have distributed a whopping 147,377kgs to 70 charities over the past quarter: an average of 49,000kgs…
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