Six New Zealand Red Cross volunteers walked the streets of
Queenstown on Friday to collect donations as part of the
humanitarian organisation's annual appeal.
The appeal will be followed by a Red Cross fundraising night
at the Boiler Room in aid of earthquake survivors in Chile on
Wednesday, from 8pm.
More than 50 volunteers knocked on Wakatipu doors last week
and over the weekend as part of a national effort to improve
on last year's total of almost $300,000.
New Zealand Red Cross service centre co-ordinator Richard
Garden, of Queenstown, said some donations would go into the
organisation's standby disaster relief fund for national and
international crisis.
"Some will go towards funding our hospital transport service,
emergency response equipment and meals on wheels projects."
Mr Garden said the total raised in the Wakatipu was expected
to be known later this week.
About $8500 raised for disaster-relief efforts by music
festival Rock 4 Haiti had been spent on medical care and
emergency shelters in Haiti.
The organisation has also launched an emergency appeal in the
aftermath of the 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile.
The New Zealand wing has already sent $20,000.
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