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Domino’s Auckland store owners are banding together in the face of New Zealand’s new COVID outbreak by supporting local foodbanks. Over the next seven days (Wednesday 19th- Tuesday 25th August) 50 cents from every pizza sold in the Auckland region will be donated to The Foodbank Project. With the move...

Foundation North, the community trust for Auckland and Northland, has made its first impact investment towards the creation of 118 new homes for families facing housing insecurities. Foundation North has invested $2m through impact-investing platform Community Finance, to support The Salvation Army, an existing grantee of the Foundation, to finance three...

New Zealanders all over the country will be colouring their world and brightening thousands of lives again this February. For the sixth year running the Resene Hunger for Colour fundraiser will be offering crafty Kiwis a chance to get their colour fix and help struggling families in their community, by...

The Salvation Army’s recently opened social housing complex in Auckland, Te Hononga Tāngata, has become the first real home of their own for many of its 59 tenants, thanks in part to furniture donated from a Queenstown resort. When Crown Workspace won the contract to remove furniture from Oaks Queenstown...

Drop by your local Bunnings store’s sausage sizzle on Friday 13 December from 9am to 3pm to help raise funds for Kiwis in need this Christmas. Bunnings New Zealand General Manager, Toby Lawrance, said all money raised will be donated to The Salvation Army’s 2019 Christmas Appeal.

Hundreds of New Zealand children will experience the thrill of opening Christmas presents this year, thanks to Auckland radio station Humm FM and The Salvation Army. The Humm FM toy drive will run for 48 hours from 6pm on Thursday, December 5 to 6pm on Saturday, December 7 in conjunction...

Many New Zealanders are struggling with the health, educational, and emotional problems, due to poverty, The Salvation Army territorial community ministries director Jono Bell told the audience at the launch of this year’s Christmas Appeal in Christchurch on Tuesday. The 2019 Christmas Appeal promotes messages of hope and transformation, and...

It was Christmas, and Kirsty* had walked an hour and a half—with only a worn out pair of jandals on her feet—to her nearest Salvation Army. It was hard to ask for help, but she knew she had to find the courage. A year ago, life had been fairly stable...

The Salvation Army foodbank in Waitākere ran out of food last week; an indication of the strain many New Zealand whānau are under as they struggle to afford the cost of living. Wednesday, October 16 is World Food Day, and as demand for services offered by The Salvation Army remains strong,...

On World Sight Day (Thursday, October 10) many New Zealanders are unable to afford a basic tool to see clearly – glasses. More than 70 percent of people seen at the recent Salvation Army-OneSight clinics failed vision tests. Many of these were able to have their vision corrected immediately at...

The Salvation Army and OneSight are again teaming up to fund eye tests and prescription glasses for Salvation Army clients around New Zealand.

Local schools from around the country have collected more than 30,000 cans in the annual Wattie’s Cans for Good campaign which took place in August. Wattie’s generously donated a further 25,000 cans taking the total number collected to over 56,000 cans. The cans go a long way towards helping The...