June 02, 2023
City Mission food hub moves south
Auckland City Missioner Helen Robinson says moving the mission’s food distribution hub to Nga Whare Waatea Marae in Mangere brings it closer to the areas of greatest need.
Te Tāpui Atawhai was welcomed onto the marae yesterday to mark the start of its new partnership with Manukau Urban Maori Authority.
Ms Robinson says it needed a new hub after its central city distribution centre was destroyed by flooding.
“So this is an incredibly important day and it marks the shelter the marae is providing to the mission and formalises in another level, another depth the partnership between our two organisations, and out of this centre literally thousands and thousands of whanau across Auckland will be fed,” she says.
The arrangement will be for 14 months and could be extended.