Domestic violence charity founder wins Local Hero AwardMatthew Cattin/STUFF I Got Your Back Pack founder Anita Hinton. For around two years, the 31-year-old has quietly gone about her business, running I Got Your Back Pack - a charity distributing backpacks of essential items to women, men and children in crisis due to domestic violence. Her efforts - which have seen more than 1300 backpacks distributed to Women's Refuge centres across the country - have now earned her a Kiwibank Local Hero Award. SUPPLIED I Got Your Back Pack founder Anita Hinton with Auckland Mayor Phil Goff and Kiwibank Acting CEO Mark Stephen at the Kiwibank Local Hero Awards. Hinton started the charity in 2015 while studying science at Massey and raising her daughter.

Source: Stuff December 13, 2017 22:38 UTC