1 00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:04,840 Speaker 1: Government shakeout of the free school lunches program has hit 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 1: home here in Ashburton from our Kai for Kids Joe 3 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:11,640 Speaker 1: Taylor Morning, Good Morning Lake So written article a little 4 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 1: earlier this week that we've lost a couple of schools 5 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: with a program revamp we have. 6 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:22,120 Speaker 2: Yes, there was a tender process for a three dollar 7 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 2: lunch program which is the new national direction, and that 8 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 2: has gone to another provider. And yeah, we put in 9 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 2: a four dollar bed, so we weren't quite successful in that. 10 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 1: That's pretty good to get a school lunch down to 11 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: four bucks a pop. 12 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:39,519 Speaker 2: We've worked pretty hard to do that. 13 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:39,919 Speaker 1: Now. 14 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:44,919 Speaker 2: I bet it is disappointing, but as I said in 15 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 2: your you said in your intro, we're still really positive. 16 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 2: We still support two hundred children in eight other schools 17 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 2: and we support the local Kindy's melnisk and Hampstead Candys. 18 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 2: We feed all the kids there and a few others 19 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 2: at some of the other Kindy's as well. So we've 20 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:04,399 Speaker 2: still got a mission to support and nourish the children 21 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 2: in mid Canterbury and we're not going anywhere. 22 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:09,279 Speaker 1: So how does that all work? How come some schools 23 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 1: get government funding and others don't. 24 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 2: So it's based on the school's equity index. So every 25 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 2: school has an equity index that rates essentially they're socioeconomic demographic. 26 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:24,560 Speaker 1: Used to be the souls just used to be the Delts. 27 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:26,000 Speaker 1: That's old old. 28 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 2: You would have heard disol SEXTL ten. That all went 29 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 2: out the window a few years ago and it's been 30 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 2: replaced with something called an equity index, and that rates 31 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:41,680 Speaker 2: the schools on a slightly broader category. And so throughout 32 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 2: New Zealand, the schools that are in the what are 33 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 2: considered the twenty five percent lowest, it's actually the highest 34 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 2: equity index shows the highest need and they qualify for 35 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 2: yours free lunch program throughout the country. 36 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: So who are the ones that you're losing if. 37 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 2: You haven't in the Canterbury that is Chertsey School, Ashburton 38 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 2: never Be school in Hempstead's. 39 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: For not never be. That's where it all started. 40 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 2: That is indeed, I know that ground zero is that 41 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 2: is where KAIFA kids got started. With support from Advanced 42 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 2: Ashburton in our local community, we're able to start doing 43 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 2: lunches there long before the lunch program had even started 44 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 2: throughout the country. So that one, yeah, probably it hurts 45 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 2: just a little bit, but We're still going to support them. 46 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 2: We are committed to continuing to provide morning tea for them. 47 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 2: A three dollar lunch is not going to go very 48 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 2: far to feed those children, so we're going and it 49 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 2: certainly won't have any fresh fruit and vegetables involved or 50 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 2: home baking, so our team is committed to still be 51 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:45,920 Speaker 2: cutting up fruit and providing those morning tea boxes which 52 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:47,799 Speaker 2: is packed full of fruit and a piece of home baker. 53 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,519 Speaker 1: How do you achieve all that? So where's all your 54 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 1: funding come from? Now? 55 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 2: We are going to well, we have an amazing team 56 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 2: of volunteers that come in a couple on a Tuesday 57 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 2: morning and a couple on a Wednesday morning, and men, 58 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:03,600 Speaker 2: can they man a pikelot grill like you've never seen 59 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 2: turn out eight hundred pikelots in a few hours, so 60 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 2: that we'll still be carrying on. We also make muffins 61 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 2: by the hundreds and so that lovely work will continue, 62 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 2: and with support from the community, we will be doing 63 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:23,520 Speaker 2: some more of our own fundraising next year. It was 64 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:25,639 Speaker 2: just at a meeting last night, so we're hoping to 65 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 2: pull together some clever fundraising next year and just to 66 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 2: keep providing our kids with good nourishment. Yeah right, yeah, 67 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 2: that's our mission. 68 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: Not all hope has lost in the sense that it's 69 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 1: only a year long contract, right, so if you wanted to, 70 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: you could pitch again next year. 71 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 2: Well, we'll have a big long think about that and 72 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 2: look at where we could sit. Obviously a lot can 73 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 2: change in a year, and so we will certainly be 74 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 2: sitting back and looking. But we're here to help the 75 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 2: children and if there's a need and we see that 76 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 2: we can meet that need, then where their boots are. 77 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 1: Oh look, it's a wonderful attitude. I really feel for 78 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 1: yourself and the team. I know we have to say 79 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: goodbye to a couple of members as a result of this, 80 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 1: but the fact that it's not a death blow, the 81 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 1: fact that you know, this wonderful thing that we've built, 82 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:16,479 Speaker 1: Skai for kids is going to fight another day and 83 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 1: to keep nourishing local Tamariki that Warm's missule Joe. 84 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 2: Great looking at Warm's mine and so many others as well. 85 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 2: We still have an amazing team that are here to 86 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 2: support our community, and in turn, our community is amazing 87 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 2: at supporting us to help us support those children.