This project has been running since 2015. This is a long time for our communities to be committed to providing quality household goods and pantry items. We are so grateful to all those communities who are committed to regularly providing goods and who have made this project possible.

Newly arriving families are also being settled in the Wairarapa and Levin. Rightly so our parish communities in those areas are supporting the local resettlement efforts. This means that greater pressure now falls on to the remaining communities to keep on supporting this ongoing project in the Wellington area.

We really need your help:

Option 1 – become one of our regular volunteer groups who provide a house pack and pantry items once or twice a year. We will provide you with a list of items

Option 2 – gather some likeminded people together and start fundraising so that Catholic Social Services can purchase household items and pantry packs as we need them

Option 3- Be an ongoing gatherer of good quality electrical goods and kitchen ware to donate over the course of a year. (To be stored at CSS) The following items are the ones most in need:-

• Electric Jug

• Microwave• Rice cooker

• Vacuum cleaner

• Pots and pans

• Dinner set

• Cooking utensils.

If you would like to participate please contact us at refugees@wncatholicsocialservices.org.nz

Thank you !

Kamau Holland

Director Catholic Social Services