We are so grateful for the on going support of so many people on a regular basis. Today I thought I would high light one of them - St Kentigern College have been working hard for us for some time now, their principal Steve Cole has a fantastic "make it happen"...
Albany Junior High School
At the end of June, two Year 8 students from Albany Junior High School, Maitreyi Jain and Hannah Waller, sent out an email to a number of organisations involved in Poverty and Food in Schools, asking them to assist their school in their chosen topic … “NZ charities -...
Government’s Walk Away
Just prior to our Herald Article, Brenda and I went to our local MP and advised him what was about to be published in the Herald the next day, concerning a group of people in his Electorate, and what they were doing that was making a difference in Manurewa. We asked...
Times they are a Changing
Some real exciting times have been had since the last newsletter, so I thought I would break this newsletter update into three: Updates on Events Government Non Assistance Albany Junior High School Visit Since our last newsletter we have had awesome meetings with...
A week in the life of Steve
Since the Herald did that feature article on our Breakfast Club my part time, unpaid, volunteer position at Breakfast Club has turned into a 50 hour a week incredible journey and I am loving every minute of it. Read what I do in a week and you can see why I am so...
Herald Article leads on to great things…
My mother once told me that “what is today’s news is tomorrow’s fish and chip paper” … it was good reading the article in last Saturday’s paper … but now back to reality. What has happened since that article: Feedback from our sponsors is that businesses they are...
Team Work in Adversity
Since our last newsletter, we have: Been given about $4,000 worth of pasta from Elim Junior Campus. Assisted the Anglican Food Bank in Manurewa in stocking their shelves with food we have previously received from Bayfield School, New World and Elim Junior Campus....
And I Thought Things Could Not Get Better
Since the last newsletter … Elim Senior Campus donated to our food bank 40 large packets of high quality pasta and 40 packets of Easter Eggs and Bunnies Bayfield School in Herne Bay delivered $100’s of dollars worth of groceries in time for the school holidays New...
The Bugging Continues…
Further to our last update when I spoke about all our requests being met even before we asked anyone for anything … well that has continued. Our Food Bank was pretty well depleted in the last two weeks … and I sat there last Friday thinking of ways of ‘getting’ more...