Fatu Siliva unpacks a box of donated food at Vision Church's Christmas Box packing day on Saturday. Photo / Tereya Strong
From the Christmas-red masking tape used to make up the boxes, to the team breaking down the boxes the food came in, Palmy's Christmas Box packing day was a slick operation.
It was the second year Vision Church had partnered with Christmas Box, which provides food essentials and Christmas treats
for families in need.
Fifty volunteers in the morning and another 50 in the afternoon worked on getting the boxes packed and distributed with the Tremaine Ave church resembling Santa's elves hard at work.
By the end of Saturday, about 1750 boxes each worth $70 retail had gone to community service groups, Palmerston North and Feilding police, and churches to be distributed. Some were going as far as Wainuiomata, Flaxmere and Masterton.
Forty-eight pallets of food arrived the day before packing day, Christmas Box regional co-ordinator Jayden Bay said. The non-perishable items included flour, sugar, tea, coffee, Weet-Bix, Marmite, chocolates, potato chips, biscuits, and baked beans.
