Te Whata Kai a Ruamatua

18/01/2022

Our community pantry outside of Inn. Notice!!

🙅‍♀️🙅No more kakahu are to be left here. It's becoming an eyesore and most times we end up having to take them away. It is now extremely hard to find secondhand shops that will take clothes and especially now that there are no clothing bins.

Please use this FB page from now on, to post up clothes that you are wanting to share on.

What can you leave❓
🙋‍♀️🙋Books, Household items, Shoes, Seeds, Plants and definitely Kai.

But not if its broken, rusty, dirty, passed its use by date (yes carseats included) ay whānau.

N.B Once a month we have access to surplus kai. PM us.

05/09/2021

Lockdown learnings- 'Kai sovereignty'. We will start to add seeds, plants & fresh kai to our whata, starting this week! Time to get our soil ready for Spring gardens.

29/05/2021

A whole heap of kai will be stocked at Whata Kai today. Keep 👀 out and as always 'take what you need and leave what you can' next time if not this time.

30/04/2021

We have kai coming in apopo c/o Uawa Maori Women's Welfare League. If you or a whanau you know of, would like a package please get in touch.

09/04/2021

We are picking up kai tomorrow morning, care of Uawa Maori Women's Welfare League.

Looking for drop off locations, so if you or your neighbour, or your kaumātua could do with a care package please send us a DM.

28/03/2021

Te Whata Kai is full e te whānau, come and grab you and your whanau a something x

21/01/2021

❤💯

Koha mai, Koha atu. Take what you need, Give what you can…. 

Our produce stall is abundant with a bountiful harvest. 

Do the mahi , get the treats.

07/12/2020

Fresh Oranges, orange juice anyone?

10/11/2020

This Whata works on the basis that you 'take what you need and leave what you can, next time'.

Sharing this vid as it represents the goodies you can find in the whata kai, either when you leave something (worthy) for others or you are there lending a hand to give it a tidy it up.

As always just a reminder that clean, tidy Clothing should be presented well (in the left side of whata) and Shoes that are soo worn that you wouldnt be seen wearing yourself 😅 should probably be taken to the dump by you and not become our trash to take 🤔🙄😂

It was soo cool to see a couple of little girls jump out of their van and run straight for Te Whata to see if they could find themselves some goodies.

What treasures have you scored from Te Whata?

28/10/2020

⚠️UPDATE⚠️
Thanks to our brilliant community we have located 4 beds. You guys rock! Just looking for a refrigerator now ❄️

Looking for single beds again for another family in need. We are happy to take just bases if you have them also. If you have other furniture like drawers, dining room tables and chairs or any working whiteware we would be super duper happy to take those too. Thank you so much for your help!