Kiwi Community Assistance

Working together to reduce inequality in our communities

Who we are 

Kiwi Community Assistance (KCA) supports Wellington communities by rescuing surplus food and household goods, redistributing them to frontline agencies assisting those in need.

We are also looking for volunteers to help with our mission. Additionally, we invite more businesses to join our food rescue program. Please watch the video links below to learn more about our work.


Food Rescue Video 

What does KCA do Video

K Road Chronciles - Featuring KCA 

What we provide

  • Food donations are redistributed Monday to Friday, with agencies collecting stock from our warehouse.

  • We also provide recently laundered clothing, shoes, children’s reading books (we don’t accept adult fiction/non-fiction), school stationery supplies, and more, which are picked up by our partner agencies.

  •  Cots and nappy change tables in good condition are also passed on to our partner agencies for their clients. 

How we do it

  • 1 Collect donations from the drop off points 
  • 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

1695

Banana boxes of food distributed this month

Non-food boxes

658

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

Emissions Saved

72102

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.

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Funds

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

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Time

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

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Our Mission

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.