Local not-for-profit organisation Food For Love is appealing for school lunch ingredients. 

Food for Love provides home-cooked meals for families going through a hard time, whether that need is financial or personal. 

“As residents of the Upper Clutha it’s hard for some to fathom that students go to school each day without a lunch,” Food for Love said in a statement. 

But the organisation does provide for a number of local school children.

Food for Love goes by the rule ‘you can’t learn if you don’t fuel the brain’ and it is therefore appealing for donations for ingredients, the organisation said in a statement.

Mount Aspiring College principal Nicola Jacobsen told the Wanaka App there were a “small number” of families at the school supported by Food for Love. 

“The number has grown since last year, and the disruption to local business and industry, and as Wanaka continues to grow, I believe that we will see more families who need support,” she said.

The Community Networks food bank is another organisation which supplies food for locals in need.

Community Networks manager Kate Murray said over half the parcels it distributed in the first half of 2021 went to families with dependents.

“For families with school-age children we ensure school lunch items are included in their parcels.”

During this period it provided 384 parcels - an average of 64 parcels a month, supporting 45 families. 

People in a position to make a donation to Food for Love can do so at the donation bin at the New World Three Parks foyer. 

Food for Love was established in Wanaka in 2016.

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