MEDIA ADVISORY – Event to thank members of the Community Coalition for Food in Schools – Harawira

Posted on March 4, 2014 by admin in Feed the Kids, Media Advisory

Tomorrow MANA Leader and Te Tai Tokerau MP, Hone Harawira, will host a morning tea in Parliament to thank the member organisations of the Community Coalition for Food in Schools who have promoted the need for his Feed the Kids Bill to be supported at first reading and sent to a select committee for further consideration and public debate.

Mr Harawira’s Feed the Kids Bill is expected to come up for first reading next Wednesday 12 March.

More than 30 organisations have come together to help push this kaupapa, and as a result of the near year-long campaign, 70% of New Zealanders have said they support the need for government-funded food programmes in low decile schools. That positive result was followed up by “food in schools” being the only policy issue to make the Top 10 news stories of 2013.”

“With the help of Coalition we have been able to run an excellent campaign to promote our Feed the Kids initiative, and I want to properly acknowledge them all for that,” said Mr Harawira.

  • When: 10:30-11:30am, Wednesday 5 March
  • Where: West Foyer, Ground Floor Executive Wing, Parliament Buildings
  • Speakers: Hone Harawira, and representatives from the Coalition including NZEI, PPTA, UNICEF, and Caritas Aotearoa NZ – the Catholic Bishops Agency to end poverty and injustice.

Member organisations of the Community Coalition for Food in Schools are: Anglican Action; Auckland Action Against Poverty; Barnardos; Caritas Aotearoa NZ; Child Poverty Action Group; Choose Kids: Students Giving Kiwi Kids a Chance; CTU Rūnanga; Every Child Counts; IHC; Manaia PHO; Methodist Church; NZ Educational Institute; NZ Nurses’ Organisation; NZ Principals’ Federation; Plunket; Poverty Action Waikato; Poverty Stoppers: South Auckland High School Students; PPTA; Quality Public Education Coalition; Salvation Army; Save the Children; Te ORA: Māori Medical Practitioners’ Association; Te Rōpū Wāhine Māori Toko i te Ora (Māori Women’s Welfare League); Te Rūnanga Nui o Ngā Kura Kaupapa Māori o Aotearoa; Te Tai Tokerau PHO; Te Waka Huia Māori Cultural Group; Tertiary Education Union; The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners; Unicef NZ; and Women’s Refuge.

For more information go to http://www.feedthekids.org.nz

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For further information please contact Jevan Goulter, (022) 088-5646