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Demand surges for charity assistance
Tough times are putting pressure on charities, with demand for their services doubling over the last few months. Salvation Army Christchurch community services manager Trish Jamieson said the number of parcels distributed in the central city and Linwood had doubled from March compared with the same months last year. "We're noticing the enormous increase and the quite different clientele," she said. "The food bank has been incredibly busy." Jamieson said the food bank had tightened its criteria two years ago, insisting anybody wanting a parcel needed a letter from Work and Income saying they had used their entitlement for food for that year. That had resulted in fewer parcels being distributed, but demand was now greatest since that change. Christchurch Methodist Mission chief executive Michael Greer said the figures were startling. "I have been here five years and I think at the moment it's the worst I've seen," he said. "In May, and what I know of June, we're seeing between two and three times what we would consider our normal referral patterns. "As the economy begins to contract, the people it impacts on first are those on limited fixed incomes or those employed with low incomes."
As the economic squeeze starts getting tighter, and inflation starts to bite all the while oil goes up and up and up alongside crop prices as global warming interrupts the global agricultural calendar, and it’s all only going to get worse and the total lack of real leadership on this issue by either major political party suggests a culture of total denial. The era of cheap oil is over and food prices are only going to soar, we need to radically implement new policies to adapt our economy to these new realities, Labour’s buy back of Rail when oil is $143 a barrel and predicted to be $200 a barrel by the end of the year is the sort of radical agendas that should be adopted on all fronts, and if you think John Key’s $50 per week tax cut is going to be able to save things, you are smoking meth.
posted by Bomber @ 7:15 am
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6 Comments:
Another thing that's happening is that companies are tightening their belts financially, and the first thing to go is usually the charity donations, so there'll be a lot of charities out there struggling to survive and to help people in need.
NS
Speak to anyone outside the Auckland/Welli central city bubbles and you'll find people are struggling to make ends meet, even those with good jobs who over extended themselves to get on the property ladder. Cheap credit coming back to haunt those who danced with the devil when times were good. The devil wants his money back now.
Yep and the Government buying the rail off Toll was corporate charity at it's best.
you are the one smoking meth. you prob drink meths as well
Another pointless post Bomber. When you have something new to say then by all means do so but you're becoming repetitive.
And explain to me how tax cuts which put more money into peoples pockets to help them buy the basics WON'T help them.
Tell you what, when you've got three little kids and mortgage interest rates are going through the roof and petrol prices are ridiculous ... $50 a week sure will help.
NS
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