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Adele, a SuperGran volunteer, gives cooking advice to client Leah. Founded in 1994, SuperGrans has branches around the country. Its volunteers, mostly older women, teach basic household management skills such as cooking, cleaning, repairing clothes and budgeting.

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Margaret Tennant, Voluntary welfare organisations – Volunteers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/29109/supergrans (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Margaret Tennant, published 24 February 2011.