Poverty

Charities New Zealand

Woven Earth

Auckland — Tāmaki Makaurau

We help survivors of family violence rebuild their lives with dignity by turning their empty houses into homes after they flee violence.

Special Friends Sports Trust

Canterbury — Waitaha

Removing the barriers to make Sport available to disadvantaged children in Canterbury.

Wesley Community Action

Wellington — Te Whanganui-a-Tara

We contribute to building a just and caring society where all people lead the lives they choose and value.

Onja

International

To teach English & coding to gifted youth who lack opportunity, enabling them to have life-changing careers at Onja's self-sustaining impact sourcing enterprise.

ChildFund New Zealand

International

We help children and youth to thrive.

Free Slaves Organisation

Southland — Murihiku

Free Slaves is a grassroots organization that seeks to bring freedom to families trapped in bonded-labour slavery and to empower them to begin a new life in community.

Everybody Eats Ltd

Nationwide

We aim to be part of solving three huge problems we have in NZ: food waste, food poverty, and social isolation.

International Needs

Bay of Plenty — Te Moana a Toi-te-Huatahi

A worldwide partnership of Christian organisations fulfilling the commission of Jesus Christ, supporting each other to see transformed lives, families and communities.

Mercy Ships

International

Mercy Ships, a faith-base not-for-profit NGO, operates a 16,000 tonne hospital ship which provides free medical surgeries for the poorest nations of the earth.

Middlemore Foundation

Auckland — Tāmaki Makaurau

To connect and lead an alliance of partners to transform the health of communities.

Barnardos

Nationwide

Now, more than ever, children in Aotearoa need your help.

Kiwi Harvest

Nationwide

KiwiHarvest collects excess food from supermarkets, growers, farmers markets, etc. and distributes it to community organisations feeding the food-insecure and disadvantaged members of our community.

KidsCan Trust

Nationwide

KidsCan provides the essentials to Kiwi kids affected by poverty so they can participate in learning and have an opportunity for a better future.

So They Can

International

By 2030, our goal is to change the future for 36,000 children in Africa who, through no fault of their own, are living in poverty

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