{"id":6164,"date":"2023-07-05T05:13:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T17:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6164"},"modified":"2023-07-05T05:13:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T17:13:56","slug":"food-rescue-charities-face-funding-struggles-amid-high-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6164","title":{"rendered":"Food rescue charities face funding struggles amid high demand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, organisations met with local MPs to voice their concerns, asking for a national food strategy, more funding and mandatory reporting on the country’s food waste problem.<\/p>\n

At Fair Food food rescue charity in West Auckland’s Avondale, a truck laden with bread, fresh produce and snacks that was destined for landfill arrived.<\/p>\n

Every day, two tonnes of fresh food from supermarkets and growers is processed before it gets sent out to 50 different charities who deliver to people in need.<\/p>\n

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Food is dispersed to about 50 different charities who deliver to people in need. <\/span>Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Marika Khabazi<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

That equates to about two million meals a year and general manager Michelle Blau said they were struggling to meet demand.<\/p>\n

“Last week we shared 51 thousand meals worth of fresh food that would be in a bin if we weren’t here to take it, but there’s still a need that’s outpacing what we can provide.”<\/p>\n

Labour’s Angie Warren-Clarke said there was a huge problem.<\/p>\n

“We have a food system that is broken in this country and that is the work that I’ve been trying really hard to start to enable in our government, we do need to fund these services more.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, organisations met with local MPs to voice their concerns, asking for a national food strategy, more funding and mandatory reporting on the country’s food waste problem. At Fair Food food rescue charity in West Auckland’s Avondale, a truck laden with bread, fresh produce and snacks that was destined for landfill arrived. Every day, two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6166,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6164\/revisions\/6166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}