Waitara Food Bank Pataka Kai

At Waitara Foodbank Pataka Kai, we are a vital kai hub in Waitara, North Taranaki, providing around 130 emergency food parcels each week across three days while working to ensure no one goes hungry. We focus on personalised support for each whānau, meeting individual needs with care and dignity, and we also prepare hearty frozen meals for rough sleepers and for people who are unable to cook due to sickness or injury. Backed by around 40 volunteers, our work goes beyond emergency food relief to help build long-term kai resilience through free cooking classes, educational workshops, starter kits for growing kai at home, and Waitara’s first community garden, which we established in 2024. Our kaupapa is not just teaching people how to fish, but how to 'fillet it, cook it.'

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