Te Tai Poutini KAI PUKU

14/06/2026

The Game2Give Hunter generosity continues! A big Kai Puku THANK YOU to
Logan van der Hulst, who brought in a large donation of fresh venison meat 🦌🦌🦌.
We are full of appreciation towards our local hunters, showing up for their West Coast community💚
Xroadmeets Processing NZDA - West Coast Branch Delore Electrical & Heatpumps Limited New World Hokitika Precision Helicopters Ltd Development West Coast Department of Conservation Poutini Waiora

13/06/2026

New Zealand Food Network secures and sends us an abundance of kai each week. 😍The food the network gathers from donors makes up over half of the food we have distributed into our West Coast communities.
Every delivery has a variety of food and staples for a family meal.
Tinned tomatoes 🥫🍅🍅 went down well with the Game2Give venison mince for family tables!
Spuds are nutritious and so easy especially at this time of the year, bake, roast, mash and fry! 🥔🥔🍟🍛
Tell us what's your favourite Simple Potato recipe???😍💚🍛

04/06/2026

Walk your Kuri/dog support the cause! 💚

This Sunday 7th June, meet at 10am,
Blaketown Clubrooms.

Raising funds towards CAR T Cell Therapy for Tawhai

See details in link

FUNDRAISING EVENT on the trail next weekend!
Walk your dog for cancer. Tawhai is currently receiving treatment in Australia for Multiple Myeloma. Join this event to raise awareness and funds to support him and his whanau. There will be a walk on the trail followed by a sausage sizzle.
Dogs must be on leads. More details available at https://westcoastwildernesstrail.co.nz/general/events/
Donate to the cause at https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/tawhai-and-lani-sperated-from-children-to-receive

03/06/2026

At the end of April Te Tai Poutini KAI PUKU was lucky enough to have the lovely Paula Henderson, from ANZ,Greymouth, come along to volunteer with us for the day. 🤲🏼🦺🍍🍏🍅🍞🌽
Together we covered a raft of chores 🦺📎📝 🧺 and had a productive and fun day.
The extra hands and enthusiasm from Paula were gold for us. 🙏🏽 As well as lots of positive feedback, Paula said she was definitely leaving with a better understanding of local and national food security and the drivers of food insecurity.
Ngā mihi maioha 💚 Thank You ,
Paula and ANZ Greymouth 🫶🏽
As part of give back to their communities ANZ provides its employees with at least one day of paid volunteer work.

29/05/2026

Last week we enjoyed a visit from Ross and Lynn Hamilton.
Ross is with Fonterra and manages community food donations and KickStart Breakfast https://www.kickstartbreakfast.co.nz/
that supports our school Tamariki/children 🙋‍♀️🙋🙆💁‍♂️ to start the day with a healthy breakfast in their tummies. 🤸🏃‍♀️🥣🧃🍶
Yet another of the fabulous providers ⭐️ that donate bulk nutritious products to the New Zealand Food Network and then on to our hub for distribution here on the West Coast!
Ngā mihi nui/Thank you Ross for the wonderful contributions to our hapori/community 🩵🤍💚

27/05/2026

While we are absolutely humbled by our continued local hunter donations of Game2Give venison🦌 we really need to acknowledge 📢 the first
Bragging Rights 🏆🏆 for Kylie and Reuben who individually brought in the largest donations of wild west coast venison! 🦌🦌🎉 close to half the meat total for the Feb-April period! 😎😎👏🏽 Champions🎯 Sound on!
Xroadmeets Processing NZDA - West Coast Branch Delore Electrical & Heatpumps Limited Precision Helicopters Ltd New World Hokitika Development West Coast Zak Shaw Poutini Waiora

25/05/2026

Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini - Success is not the work of an individual but the work of many.
From starting to rescue short dated and surplus kai three days a week to delivery AND pick up five days, we are proud to reach over a quarter million KG of kai distributed in our Te Tai poutini / West Coast communities. 🍞🥑🫑🍗🍼🥧Good quality food, feeding families, that would otherwise have gone to waste. 250+ Tonne of food, equivalent to 550,000 meals 🥗🥘🫕.
All of this from kai Rescued and Donated from New World Hokitika , Woolworths New ZealandGreymouth, The WarehouseGreymouth, Four Square Stafford Street , The Hokitika Sandwich Company , New Zealand Food Network SPCA New ZealandChristchurch , other businesses that want to be anonymous, of course our generous local home donors and gardeners , and now our Game2Give Hunters! Ka pai / well done💚

19/05/2026

Congratulations 🎊 Elspie Mitchell,
Winner of our Guess the West Coast Wild Venison Meat Total weight Donated 🦌 in our latest Game2Give time-framed round.
Elspie attended our Infomation evening and entered the guess Sweepstake coming closest to the 401kg total 🎯
A New World $100 voucher kindly donated by our amazing partners Xroadmeets Processing 💚
Thank you to everyone who entered, wonder what the next round will total 👀🦌🏔🚀.???


NZDA - West Coast Branch Development West Coast Delore Electrical & Heatpumps Limited New World Hokitika Department of Conservation

15/05/2026

The Game to Give project has already provided around 882 meals for families.

17/12/2025

What an awesome day at the Kai Puku hub! 🤩
We spent the day sausage making with the rangatahi from the Poutini Waiora - Ko Wai Au programme, guided by our amazing Hokitika mentors Rebecca Thompson and Wayne Jones.
The rangatahi learned the full process: sorting meat, mincing, preparing casings, and making the final product.
There was tons of laughter, learning, and genuine interest in mastering this hands-on home skill.
After taste tests confirmed they were delicious, the rangatahi took sausages home for their whānau to try!
Ko Wai Au, Facilitator, Nelly Mason noted that the workshop added another valuable skill to their growing kete/knowledge basket.
📢😁Another big mihi/thank-you out to the New Zealand Food Network for supplying the meat to make this happen!
Ko Wai Au wānanga promote self-development, resilience, and cultural education. Supporting Rangatahi (12 to 17 years)
📸 Group Photo: includes Facilitator -Nelly Mason,
Mentor -Mahana Coulston, 🎅Secret Santa -Katene Campbell and Pou Lead -Merania Kahukiwa