Guidance and advise for Foodbanks

MSD has issued guidance and information for foodbanks, food rescue and other community food services operating in the COVID-19 Alert Level 4 environment.

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This is essential reading, and includes:

• Providing food as an essential service
• Guidance and information on safety
• CDEM support for foodbanks, including recovery of costs.

MSD is supporting Kore Hiakai Zero Hunger Collective to establish best practice guidelines for CDEM groups to work with the foodbank and food rescue sector.  These should be issued by early next week. MSD is also supporting Kore Hiakai to collect information on which foodbanks, food rescue and other community food services are operating, including trends and issues. Kore Hiakai will be reporting this through to MSD on a regular basis. Kore Hiakai have set up a foodbank survey where you can provide them with your information. We would be enormously appreciative if you could complete this.

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