Ending with a smile

Its nice to end the week on a good note and with a smile. We started the day picking up our supplies for breakfast from South Mall new world and were greeted with a bag full of socks and underwear. Kim had read our facebook post yesterday about Randwick park kids...

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New Faces

We have some new faces coming to breakfast at both of our schools this term. After talking with Manukau Police District Domestic Violence division, we are pleased to let you know that from now on two members of the team will now be regularly coming to help serve...

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Filling the food bank

We want to say a big thank you to all of the people who have donated food over the last few weeks. New Hope Church in Botany delivered to my place hundreds of dollars of groceries for Glen Innes School. Hubbards Cereals  gave us 5 pallets of cereals and also delivered...

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Dry Happy Feet

One of the things we noticed on our first visits to our new school in Glen Innes was that none of the children had any proper shoes, if they had any on at all. This was at the start of winter and we knew that we had to try and help with this as soon as possible. I...

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More than just food !

Donations come to us here at the breakfast club in all sorts of shapes and sizes some of them rather large. Here are just a few stories of  donations recently received that have let us help the community with more than just food..One of our staff members talked to us...

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Make it happen

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"...

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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 -...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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