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The Salvation Army is not the only organisation aiming to create a better society but it is the only one with uniforms and a military structure – its members are known as soldiers and have ranks.
In Christchurch it has six churches (Belfast, Aranui, Sydenham, Linwood, Moorhouse Ave and Hornby) plus Family Stores selling secondhand items.
Less well known might be the array of social services it runs: food banks, supported accommodation, back-to-work training courses, budgeting advice, alcohol, drug and gambling addiction programmes and a van to feed sex workers and the homeless.
Its members and volunteers do advocacy work in courts and prisons, counselling and catering in welfare centres. It is a registered charity and stays afloat through donations, its annual Red Shield appeal, Family Stores’ profits and winning contracts for service (the most recent being the government’s $5 million gambling prevention contract). Continue reading
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