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A small group of Love Soup Hibiscus Coast volunteers is providing around 180 lunches every week for students of Whangaparāoa College.
Love Soup’s new youth ambassador, 15-year-old Xavier Mika, says young people were coming to the school, where he is a Year 11 student, without lunch.
He says the need was across all age groups.
Xavier, his mother Linda and Love Soup volunteer Lisa Irwin began making the lunches this term, using food donated to the charity.
Things such as filled rolls, fruit and a snack are put together at Xavier’s home or at Love Soup’s base, Whangaparāoa Hall, and taken to the school marae where they are freely available.
Demand is such that Linda expects they will soon be making around 220 lunch packs every week.
Xavier has volunteered for Love Soup for around three years, including during last year’s lockdowns.
His next initiative, once lockdown is over, is to collect second hand trainers for homeless people, as well as handbags that can be filled with soap and sanitary items.
Love Soup director Julie King says with families losing their income because of lockdowns, the food rescue charity is seeing high demand for food parcels throughout the community.
