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This week have been amazed at the generosity of one of our sponsors Kensington Swan Lawyers.

When the Breakfast club started four years ago we knew that we didn’t just want to feed kids breakfast. We wanted to make a difference to their lives. This ment that we needed to connect with the community that they were living in and work along side the teaches, social workers and the police. Over time…

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 having no socks in…

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 breakfast to the kids. Our hope is…

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 more to us this…

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…

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..

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” attitude, which is refreshing.…

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 – does NZ do enough for local poverty”.