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LOVE FOOD, HATE WASTE connecting the two she started, with her station wagon, getting in touch with cafés who had good food that was being thrown out and distributing that through agencies in Dunedin. The organisation slowly grew over the years and was able to secure premises on Kiwi Rail /Council leased grants which allowed them to start collecting a lot more food. Deborah then approached Progressive and Foodstuffs supermarket chains and commenced a food rescue business. That has organically grown over the years to the point where she saw the need to make a further impact by also setting up in Auckland. KiwiHarvest have now set up outreaches in Hawke’s Bay, Hastings and Queenstown with a small satellite operation on the North Shore of Auckland. KiwiHarvest started out as a very small operation from Dunedin in 2012 by Founder, Deborah Manning. She saw the gap in cafés and restaurants where food was getting thrown out and read an article where families were struggling financially and otherwise. With the simple idea of 18
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Goodman Property Services through the Goodman Foundation have been instrumental and big supporters of KiwiHarvest from the early stages. While located at Goodman’s business park in Ellerslie, Kiwiharvest were granted carpark space for a 40 foot and two 20 foot containers and a portable cabin to start
