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$10k worth of food stolen from Buttabean Community food bank

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Mon, 17 Oct 2022, 9:17pm
(Photo / RNZ Insight)
(Photo / RNZ Insight)

$10k worth of food stolen from Buttabean Community food bank

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Mon, 17 Oct 2022, 9:17pm

A South Auckland charity chief says he feels as if he's been kicked in the face.

David Letele, who's also known as Brown Buttabean, says he's gutted his food bank has been broken into.

Meat and vegetables were stolen, which Letele says he'd have happily given to anyone who'd come and asked for it.

Letele says he's asking the community to keep an eye out for anything suspicious.

"All I can say is that I hope they needed it. But you know, the silly thing is, if they just came today, we would have given them it. But it's a sad state of affairs and a sign of the times, I guess. Even the police I spoke to today- they've never seen a food bank targeted."

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