COVID-19 UPDATE

Level 2 Response

Level 2 Update

We have reached 10,000 meals leaving our building for local vulnerable families - this has been achieved in 6 weeks with a small onsite team, a small at-home support team and beautiful collaborative partnerships from many in our community.

Monday 18 May: We will be open for takeout coffees and pre-orded meals only. We welcome our volunteers back, in both our farms and kitchen - but please send us an email here so we can roster you with care to maintain distancing.

Given the amount of need in the community, and the beautiful support we have received, we are able to continue our 2000 plus meals each week, for the community. Thank you to kind hearts that have enabled this by funding us thus far.

Our building and operations will remain closed to the public.

We are re-thinking our pre-Covid lives, and planning for a post-Covid reality - watch this space for developments!

Level 3 + 4 Response

The ReMakery, our cafe and full operations are currently closed until further notice.

Our community kitchen and produce from the few gardens we can currently access, however, will continue to provide meals.

We see the provision of meals to those who are vulnerable, self isolating – and in particular, our elders, as imperative at this time.

The closure of our local foodbank and other services due to senior volunteers who are too at risk to keep essential services open has meant we are working towards providing as many immediate emergency food needs as we can.

Our elders now need to be cared for, not at the front line of the caring.

It's hard to say how challenging things are right now – but thanks to our extraordinary staff and volunteers, in isolation we are planning and preparing to make and deliver 400 meals daily, five days a week to feed our most vulnerable families in Lower Hutt.

Once our Covid-19 systems are in place we will begin this essential mahi to support those who most need it. We will deliver to households rather than have them come in, and are committed to doing this five days per week until Alert Level 4 is over.

Such gratitude for our staff and team who are fully committed to care of community, in the face of adversity.

Thank you for those who have offered volunteer support to us this far, we feel the risk is too great however.

We cannot have volunteers in our kitchen, and only limited gardeners to assist Hannah with harvest and food production, but we would truly love some donations to cover the ingredients cost of what we cannot grow.

Please, care for those around you. Deliveries into the community showed us families in cramped motel units, a lack of basic needs right now, the worry of beautiful people trying their best. It was heartbreaking.

Lets grow closer, Aotearoa.

Want to help? Please consider a donation to help us purchase what we cannot grow, and to cover our staffing costs.