Andrea Moffitt assists her sister Debbie Ward, a wheelchair user, with her grocery shop due to the lack of spaces for priority grocery deliveries. For wheelchair user Debbie Ward, the prospect of bursting her bubble was less daunting than having no food in the house. A lack of spaces for online grocery deliveries has agencies urging vulnerable Kiwis – disabled, elderly, and immunity-compromised people – to reach out for help. Disabled Persons Assembly chief executive Prudence Walker said that pre-lockdown, when priority online shoppers were usually able to get next-day deliveries, they were now having to wait days. Hundreds of volunteers shop and deliver essentials to those who are self-isolating, immunocompromised, live with a disability or have dependents.

Source: Stuff August 24, 2021 08:37 UTC