In the past Stefania Pizzirani has held food drives at her workplace in Scotland. This year was no different except she now works at Rotorua's Scion.
It's thanks to Mrs Pizzirani's driving force that staff at the Crown Research Institute donated a whopping 363 items of food to The Daily
Post Christmas Appeal for the Salvation Army foodbank.
The PhD student and one of her colleagues, Duncan Harrison, arrived at The Daily Post office late on Thursday afternoon with about 30 bags of food.
Mrs Pizzirani, who was born in the United States but has lived in Scotland for six years before moving to New Zealand, said she used to hold food drives at her workplace in Scotland. After reading about the Christmas appeal in The Daily Post, she set about organising a food drive at Scion.
She said to overcome "donation fatigue" she decided to organise a raffle with the entry being a can of food. She approached several businesses including Urbano, Autohaus Rotorua, Pacific MMA Gym, Aunty Annies, The Wall, Lone Star, Brew, I Love Soap.co.nz, Fat Dog and Profiles Gym who donated prizes for the raffle.
