Foodbank Canterbury is an independent, secular, non-faith based, non-politically aligned organization encouraging absolute respect for the individual, compassion, authenticity, and courage. And yet across New Zealand, 270,000 kids go to school every morning without breakfast or go to bed each night without dinner
Foodbank Canterbury puts surplus food to good use in a sustainable way. While hundr
eds of Cantabrians go hungry each day, safe, healthy and usable food is being disposed of as waste.Foodbank collects this nutritious surplus food from all segments of the food industry including restaurants, grocers, supermarkets, wholesalers, hotels and caterers.
The food we deliver helps organisations serve thousands of healthy meals each week and reduce their annual grocer bills-freeing up funds that can be reinvested in other vital support services like medical care and counselling. The food we rescue is diverted from going to landfill where it would release gases toxic to the environment. We distribute food that nourishes both body and soul.
