Image: A volunteer sorting through food donations at the Linwood Salvation Army (Getty Images)

Five years of devastating earthquakes have left many people struggling with a myriad of issues.. poverty, homelessness, injury, depression, abuse and addiction are just a few challenges on constant rotation for Canterbury residents.

But for the region's most vulnerable people, the quakes pushed them even further.

For charities and non-government organisations, it meant they were suddenly pushed into the fray to try and pick up the pieces.

Charlotte Lewis-West visited a number of charities around Christchurch to see how they were weighing negatives against the positives.

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