Financial support is the best way to help Wairoa people who have been impacted by recent flooding. 

Wairoa Mayor Craig Little has extended a huge thank you to everyone who has supported Wairoa during this challenging time.    

“This event is just devastating on top of what we have already been through. For me it is absolutely heartbreaking to see people’s livelihoods be washed away and their lifetime of memories left in a wet sodden heap outside their homes,” Little said. 

“Wairoa has been overwhelmed with aroha but we just don’t have the capacity to manage physical donations. The best way to help our community is by making a financial donation to our givealittle page or donations to the Wairoa Mayoral Relief Fund.” 

The fund has been reset for the June flooding and was kickstarted by a $100,000 donation by the Minster for Emergency Management Mark Mitchell. 

Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has also made an initial grant of $100,000 to the fund, on behalf of the wider community - at the request of Little - to support the removal of flood-affected under-house insulation. 

To make a donation to the Wairoa Flood Mayoral Relief Fund, the account number is 03-0785-0070470-00 using the reference “JUNE FLOOD”. 

To make a Givealittle donation go to the website.