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A little kindness for Christmas by Kent Caddick
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Rakaia couple Natasha and Russell Oliver are calling for help to provide a little kindness to those in need over Christmas.
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p Natasha and Russell Oliver from Rakaia want to help families in need over Christmas
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The couple, who are behind the Random Acts of Kindness NZ website, which they started last year, are seeking to provide deserving families with Kindness Hampers full of goodies to help them celebrate Christmas. “The idea behind the hampers was to give enough food and Christmas decorations to people who would
otherwise have no food to eat at all on Christmas day,” Natasha said. “Around July last year we received a post on our Random Acts of Kindness Facebook page from a couple in Christchurch who had lost a child and wanted to give a hamper of food to a family in need at Christmas time. “There were over 100 comments on it looking
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to support them and other quite heart wrenching posts from people in need as well. “So I got in touch with the lady who put up the post and said we would like to help them and maybe to give hampers to others as well.” continued on page 3 …