A call for furniture to help Edgecumbe flood victims has been so well received in Tauranga, organisers are now pleading for help to collect it all.
Rise Up Tauranga, spurred on by the Bethlehem and Te Puna Lions Club, has been collecting donated furniture at the Cargo Shed on Dive Cres and will continue to do so until the end of the month.
Truckloads of furniture have already been delivered to residents to help rebuild their lives after the devastation caused by raging floodwaters on April 6, when the Rangitaiki River burst its banks and swamped the town. In the weeks after, Rise Up Tauranga began the collection.
But organisers have since been so overwhelmed with donations they had not taken into account the offers flooding in which require pick-up from people's homes.
Rise Up Tauranga community organiser Rosalie Liddle Crawford said their biggest need right now was people and trailers to pick up the offers of donated furniture from around the city.