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 truly appreciate every donation you make to KCA — your generosity makes a real difference to the families and individuals we support.

When donating, we kindly ask that items are ones you would happily pass on to friends or family, and that they are clean, recently laundered, and ready for their new home.

Please also note that we’re unable to uplift or transport large furniture items. We can, however, accept cots, prams, baby gates, nappy change tables, and highchairs, provided they fit safely into our volunteers’ cars.

Thank you so much for your understanding and continued support — we couldn’t do this without you

Food boxes

220

Banana boxes of food distributed this month

Non-food boxes

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

Emissions Saved

9750

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.