Red Cross appeals for food supplies

Cook Islands Red Cross volunteers continue to work hard to make sure struggling families on Aitutaki have food.

The Red Cross food bank is currently set up in the Aitutaki High Court in Arutanga where dry goods are sorted and packed into parcels for families.

Red Cross is now concentrating on delivering food parcels to the elderly and destitute on Aitutaki and while they’ve received around two tonnes of dry goods – they still need more food.

Red Cross is very appreciative of the donations of food made by CITC Supermarket, Super Brown and bakeries on Rarotonga and ask more businesses to help out.

Celebration on the Rock church has donated boxes of water and Tua Nicholas and family from Tupapa managed to send over 10 big bunches of bananas which were given to the schools on the island.

Food parcels include one roll of toilet paper, one 1kg bag or rice and sugar, 1 packet of cabin bread, 2 cans of tinned fish, 2 cans of tinned meat and a mosquito coil.

Red Cross volunteers say the food stuff they need right now are tea bags, rice, cabin bread, noodles and canned goods.

Please show your support for the people on Aitutaki with donations of food to the Red Cross headquarters in Tupapa.