Our hungry kids: 40,000 NZ kids fed by charities , By Simon Collins and Elizabeth Binning, July 27, 2011, New Zealand Harald: “School principals say the number of pupils turning up for breakfast is increasing daily, despite the collapse of one of the two main breakfast programmes, a Red Cross scheme which ended this month after Countdown supermarkets withdrew their sponsorship. A Herald investigation has found that at least 185 of New Zealand’s 256 primary and intermediate schools in the poorest 10th of the nation (decile 1) give their children breakfast or other food during the day, on top of the Government’s fruit in schools scheme…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty