Single Parent Services Waikato (SPSW) works with families who have experienced most of the violence that life can throw at people.
Poverty at this time of year is another burden these families carry, so this December the service will provide unwrapped gifts and food to families experiencing hardship.
"It's important that we remind people that population level data tells us that 60 per cent of the families living below the poverty line in Aotearoa New Zealand are families led by one parent," said SPSW manager Rebecca Fraser.
They organised the first distributed unwrapped gifts to parents last year.
Enabling parents to give the gifts, rather than the agency, has been a good one, said Rebecca.