14 Apr 2013

Donated baby gear being turned away

2:34 pm on 14 April 2013

A refugee organisation says it's turning away truck loads of baby gear after an appeal for donations for the children of the Afghan interpreters arriving in New Zealand this month, went viral on social media.

Ninety six Afghan refugees, including 21 children under the age of four, will stay at the Mangere refugee resettlement centre in Auckand.

The centre was short of baby gear, so an organisations it works with issued an appeal for donations of clothes, cots, bassinets and high chairs.

Refugees As Survivors administration manager Diana Swarbrick said people with gear to donate should contact the Red Cross, as the organisation works with refugees across the country.