KidsCan news and updates.

Schools Tuesday, 14 May 2024

KidsCan welcomes new food programme for under fives amidst Ka Ora, Ka Ako changes

KidsCan is welcoming the government’s announcement of a new early childhood food programme to support 10,000 preschoolers living in poverty.

Schools Thursday, 9 May 2024

A mum making a difference

When Jules McMillan was a child, even though some Kiwi families were financially stretched, they managed. “I’m lucky that I grew up in the ’80s, because you could have a single-income family.

Fundraising Friday, 3 May 2024

Damion Ranginui – crosses the finish line, $28k raised!

He ran before dawn in torrential rain, jogged through his lunch hours, and pounded the pavements as the sun went down. 28-year-old Damion Ranginui clocked up more than 500 km in April 2024.

Fundraising Tuesday, 30 Apr 2024

There were tears of joy, there were party horns, there was disbelief. After 24 killer hours of non-stop handball, our exhausted fundraising legends How to DAD aka Jordan Watson and Jono and Ben from The Hits learned they’d well and truly smashed their $350,000 target.

Fundraising Tuesday, 23 Apr 2024

Damion Ranginui – 22 half marathons in 22 days

He’s now a manager at accounting firm KPMG, but he has never forgotten the feelings of hunger - and shame - he felt as a child living in poverty.

Schools Monday, 19 Feb 2024

Stories from the front line

I’m reading through pages and pages of heartbreak. Hundreds of stories from teachers at KidsCan’s partner schools, speaking up about what children in hardship are coping with. It shines a light on the opportunities students are being robbed of as more work to support their families. An insight into a world that children just shouldn’t be living in.

Fundraising Monday, 27 Nov 2023

No barriers for Gus.

Gus chose KidsCan after seeing the difference the breakfast club at his school made. “It makes me very sad that a lot of kids in New Zealand just don't have the bare necessities, and it showed me what a little bit of kindness can do. It’s a very simple, effective thing that we can do to help.”

Partnerships Wednesday, 22 Nov 2023

Meridian Energy: A Decade of Good Deeds

Leaping fearlessly out of a plane. Donning hi-vis vests and packing pallets with tonnes of treats. Digging deep in school yards to plant bountiful orchards. These are just a few of the heroic deeds that Meridian Energy staff have done over the last decade to show the kids of Aotearoa that they care.

ECE Wednesday, 27 Sep 2023

Paediatrician Renee Liang talks about her first-hand experience with children in poverty, and why she donates to KidsCan.

''For preschoolers, something as simple as having their own name on a new jacket is important, because at that age, their identity is developing. Then they go to school, realising that they're as important and as worthy as the next child, and they push themselves to do really well. So, what KidsCan provides might be material things, but it translates into more.''