the incredible work being done by the Tauranga Community Foodbank<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cRaising awareness is the first step toward driving meaningful change and, at Christmas especially, it\u2019s about reminding people that even small acts of generosity can have a big impact.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tauranga Crossing encouraged visitors to the centre to drop off non-perishable food donations for the foodbank at the Level 1 collection point until Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n
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Tauranga Community Foodbank general manager Nicki Goodwin said the foodbank does the very best it can with what the community provides. Photo \/ Kaitlyn Morrell<\/p>\n
\u201cEven small contributions, like pantry staples or personal care items, make a huge difference for families doing it tough this Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tauranga Community Foodbank\u2019s general manager, Nicki Goodwin, said the lead-up to Christmas was always their busiest time of year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re supporting hundreds of families, many with children who are struggling to cover even the basics.\u201d<\/p>\n
Goodwin said she would meet a lot of people who were on their own and struggling every week to get by.<\/p>\n
\u201cChristmas can be a very lonely and tough time. The generosity shown through initiatives like this means so much. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not just about food, it\u2019s about showing people that their community cares.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kaitlyn Morrell<\/a> is a multimedia journalist for the Bay of Plenty Times and Rotorua Daily Post. She has lived in the region for several years and studied journalism at Massey University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The six-week annual appeal, supported by The Hits Bay of Plenty 95.0FM, launched on Saturday and collects donations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,6375,18399,38668,1259,48054,93600,33489,62394,2082,111,43,139,69,1227,10419],"class_list":{"0":"post-137215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-and","9":"tag-appeal","10":"tag-christmas","11":"tag-collects","12":"tag-community","13":"tag-crossing","14":"tag-decorates","15":"tag-donations","16":"tag-foodbank","17":"tag-for","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-newzealand","21":"tag-nz","22":"tag-tauranga","23":"tag-trees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}