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Speaker 1: Because the number of kids needing food and clothing from

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Speaker 1: Kids Can has reached a record. More than ten thousand

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Speaker 1: students from two hundred and sixty schools across the country

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Speaker 1: are on the charity's wait list. It is the longest

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Speaker 1: since they're founding in two thousand and five. Kids Can

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Speaker 1: Chief executive Julie Chapman is with me this morning. Julie,

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Speaker 1: good morning, Good morning, Ryan. Good to have you on

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Speaker 1: the show. You're seeing quite a stark change. I mean,

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Speaker 1: those are the numbers, but you're seeing a change in

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Speaker 1: the poverty line. It's shifting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And what we're finding is that more and more

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Speaker 2: of the schools that are applying to us in middle

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Speaker 2: income areas, So that cost of living and everything that's

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Speaker 2: sort of going on right now is starting to bite

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Speaker 2: in those areas, and families that were just getting by

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Speaker 2: are now the ones that are actually needing help for

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Speaker 2: their children.

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Speaker 1: What are they needing help with.

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Speaker 3: Gosh, it's just a real basics. So it's food. You know,

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Speaker 3: a lot of schools are reporting to us that you know,

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Speaker 3: children are going home to nothing to eat, so sometimes

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Speaker 3: you know, at school is the only time they're getting something.

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Speaker 3: You know, they're delaying replacing uniforms, pairs of shoes. You know,

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Speaker 3: shoes are being held together with duct tape. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's taking longer for people to be able to afford

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Speaker 3: those things that their kids really need to be able

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Speaker 3: to get on with learning.

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Speaker 1: How long is your you know, in terms of not

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Speaker 1: numbers the wait list, but how long are people on

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Speaker 1: the wait list? You know, how long do people have

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Speaker 1: to wait to get those things?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so at this time last year, we had over

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Speaker 3: one hundred schools waiting, and now there's one hundred and

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Speaker 3: fifty more of those schools and early childhood centers.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: And I guess the real child one for us is

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Speaker 3: being able to get the funding to be able to

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Speaker 3: take them off the waitlist, because when we do that,

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Speaker 3: we also want to make sure that you know, we're

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Speaker 3: not taking them off for a short time. We're able

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Speaker 3: to support them for as long as then as they

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Speaker 3: need it.

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Speaker 1: I know you guys have partners that you work with

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Speaker 1: and stuff like that, but you'll obviously be doing an appeal.

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Speaker 1: Can you let people know about that, Julie.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, winters the toughest time for kids, especially the

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Speaker 3: ones that we support. So we've launched an urgent appeal

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Speaker 3: asking people to sign up to support a child for

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Speaker 3: thirty dollars a month or just donate what they can.

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Speaker 3: And our goal with this is to get as many

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Speaker 3: kids on that waiting list off as possible so they

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Speaker 3: can have what they need to get to school and learn.

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Speaker 1: How do people help? What's the website, Julie.

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Speaker 3: They can go to KidsCan dot org dot nz and

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Speaker 3: have a lot there all the ways that they can

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Speaker 3: help and lock also so if you're not able to donate,

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Speaker 3: just bread the words. You know, it's really important that

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Speaker 3: we support the education of all children in New Zealand

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Speaker 3: and they really, you know, the kids that are waiting

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Speaker 3: really need that support right now.

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Speaker 1: Keep up the good work, Julie, Thank you for your time.

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Speaker 1: Julie Chapman, the CEO, chief executive at kids Can. They

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Speaker 1: do brilliant work. And for more from News Talks B listen.

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