Pak’canSave stores are bringing back the Pak’canSave initiative to help Kiwi families who are struggling to buy food, after donating 40,000 cans of food to local food banks earlier this year. 

The campaign is running for two weeks until November 14 in partnership with local City Missions, foodbanks, or food rescue organisations. 

“With the challenges of Delta making it harder than ever before for New Zealanders, we decided to run another Pak’canSave this year to help top up our partner food banks. We have a commitment to be Here for NZ and Pak’canSave is one way we can bring to life our promises of ensuring New Zealanders have access to healthy and affordable food and supporting local communities”, said Steve Anderson, MD at Foodstuffs New Zealand. 

Pak’canSave aims to have 10 trollies with donated canned food and goods in each supermarket, and hopes the number of donations for this second campaign will increase compared to the previous one. People can donate food by giving it to their local stores and it will be taken to the foodbanks directly, Pak’canSave also contributes $100,000 to these organisations.

One of the organisations Pak’canSave has chosen to support is Hawke’s Bay’s Ahuriri Covid-19 Response hub. 

“Covid-19 and the additional pressures lockdown has had on our community has meant there’s more demand for our food parcels. When Sonya and the team at Pak’nSave Napier asked if we could be a part of this campaign back in July we were delighted. It’s awesome to be part of this wonderful initiative once again,” says Tania Eden, CEO of the Ahuriri (Napier) Taiwhenua.