Rural Charity Telethon Raises Enough for Over a Million Feeds
December 16, 2022
PHOTO: RNZ / Carol Stiles
A rural charity raised enough food for 1.2 million meals during a 13-and-a-half hour telethon on Thursday.
Meat the Need normally collects donated animals from farmers which are then turned into mince for foodbanks.
This week it ran a telethon, The Big Feed, in a bid to get more donations, aiming to raise enough money for 1 million meals.
Founder Wayne Langford says he was blown away by the support they received, with an initial total of 1.2 million meals.
“It was pretty amazing,” he told RNZ.
“We had a pretty audacious goal, one million meals. I think we thought we were going to get there but we didn’t know if we were going to get there midway through the morning, and then to steam home like we did was fantastic and it’s been a great result.”
Langford expected the total would be even higher once everything was counted up.