Twenty-nine schools decline Government-funded lunches
15 May, 2021 04:47 AM
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The lunch in school programme - Ka Ora, Ka Ako - was offered to 763 schools late last year. Photo / LDR
The lunch in school programme - Ka Ora, Ka Ako - was offered to 763 schools late last year. Photo / LDR
RNZ
By Rachel Graham of RNZ
Twenty-nine schools which were offered the Government s funded lunch in schools programme turned down the free food.
The lunch in school programme - Ka Ora, Ka Ako - was offered to 763 schools late last year.
The Education Ministry said Ka Ora, Ka Ako is offered to schools and kura that fall within the highest 25 per cent of socio-economic disadvantage nationally and where students face the greatest barriers that can affect access to education, wellbeing and achievement.
Tongan Robin Hood, Kennedy Maeakafa Fakan’aana’a-ki-Fualu, who organises deliveries of groceries to Tongan overstayer families.
Thousands of people live in Aotearoa illegally, surviving in a shadow world of cash jobs, without benefits or healthcare. In the first of a three-part series going inside the world of overstayers, National Correspondent Steve Kilgallon reports on the lives of an estimated 2500 Tongan overstayers. During the first coronavirus lockdown, Mary watched Jacinda Ardern’s press conferences every day. Even a year later, the prime minister’s most memorable catchphrase still echoes for her. “It always clicks into my mind,” says Mary. “Be kind on our people.”
Man forbidden to be with children on bail near Coromandel primary school
15 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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Waitakaruru School in the Coromandel has implemented safety measures after discovering a man who lived near the school was forbidden from going near children while on bail. Photo / File
Waitakaruru School in the Coromandel has implemented safety measures after discovering a man who lived near the school was forbidden from going near children while on bail. Photo / File
A man forbidden to be alone with any child under 16 has been remanded on bail to a property just minutes away from a rural primary school.