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Both containers were packed full of donations that included one of 20,000 nappies, large boxes of non-perishable food and water, mattresses, gas canisters and fold up chairs.
“The response was huge,” Rob says. “A lot of people on the Coast wanted to help, and felt this was something they could do.”
Last Wednesday, the pair left to drive the two trucks to the Napier distribution centre, paying for all the fuel for the journey themselves.
“Anything they don’t need in Napier we will take to other affected areas,” Rob says. “We would like to thank everyone who gave so generously and helped us put this together.”
Meanwhile, since February 17, Waiwera meat broker Tony Stubbs and Caleb Thompson of Wainui have been working with others to transport goods to flood hit Opotiki and Wairoa.
The group, all 4WD off road driving enthusiasts, took four vehicles and three trailers full of more than 800kgs of donated product from Neat Meat and Southern Ocean Seafoods, along with salt ice, a generator and jerry cans full of fuel purchased with $1000 given by Mitre 10, to marae, community centres and the fire station in Wairoa. Some of what they took was transported by helicopter into more remote areas. Tony says the first trip was humbling, and the damage they witnessed shocking. “We spoke with locals who had been wiped out,” he says. “It was very moving.”
They came back home, stocked up again and returned to Hawke’s Bay on February 21.
“We have discussed going back again in a month’s time, when people may be at their worst after the initial disaster struck,” Tony says. “Donations are still coming in, and we’ll make sure it all gets to where it’s needed.”
Anyone wishing to contribute can contact Tony and Caleb via the Off Road Addiction TV facebook page (www.facebook.com/ OffroadAddictionTV) or look for Tony Stubbs on Facebook.
