Salvation Army's food bank stocked thanks to Hunger for Colour

Pictured with 570 cans collected in the Resene Hunger for Colour campaign are Gisborne Resene owner David Preddey, with Salvation Army’s youth, children and family ministries co-ordinator Ashley Brown and Salvation Army Corps Officer David McEwen. Picture by Liam Clayton

The Gisborne Salvation Army’s food bank is stocked up after a successful Resene Hunger for Colour fundraiser, during which people swapped a can of food for a test pot of paint.

“We want to say a huge thanks to the Gisborne community, who have been extremely generous and donated 570 cans to our food bank,” said Salvation Army Corps Officer David McEwen.

Owner of Gisborne Resene David Preddey said cans came from across the community, with a lot of school groups collecting and exchanging them for test pots of paint to use for school projects.

The art department at EIT was another major contributor and Gizzy Rocks also donated a lot he said.

Mr McEwen was pleased there was a wide variety of foods donated and said it would help a lot when they made up the weekly food boxes.

“We take every type of canned food and will help people with recipes for using them, such as canned tomatoes which are great in casseroles and soups.”

Hunger for Colour is a nationwide fundraiser that takes place over February.

This is the third year it has been running and over the past two years about 50,000 cans of food were collected and swapped for test pots of Resene paint.

The number of cans collected was slightly down on last year.