All Good give 25,000 bananas to kids in need!

June 12, 2012

All Good give 25,000 bananas to kids in need!
Children at four schools around the country will be tucking in to over 25,000 Fairtrade bananas for a year delivered weekly by All Good Bananas in partnership with The KidsCan Charitable Trust

In March, All Good asked people to pledge a bunch of bananas via their facebook page. They’ve now hit their target of 5,000 bunches, which means a total of 25,000 bananas will be donated to kids, over the course of this year.

Four schools in the KidsCan programme will benefit from a weekly dose of All Goodness each week for a whole year - Kia Aroha College and St Joseph’s School in Auckland and North New Brighton and New Brighton Catholic School’s in Christchurch.

For schools such as North New Brighton School in Christchurch the bananas are a fresh and welcome addition to the school’s ‘breakfast club’, says Principal Brian Walkinshaw.

“We recognised a real need to set up the Breakfast Club about seven years ago, after noticing a lot of kids were coming to school hungry. The bananas are a perfect addition, great energy food and a good nourishing snack, packed full of carbohydrates. The fact that they’re Fairtrade adds that double feel good factor,” he says. “The kids are very appreciative!”

All Good import New Zealand’s only Fairtrade bananas. While Fairtrade helps to end child labour and address child poverty in developing countries such as Ecuador. As a small Kiwi owned business All Good also wanted to help address child poverty in its own backyard.

“Children going hungry is not just a developing world problem,” says All Good Director Simon Coley. “Thousands of Kiwi kids go to school without having had a proper breakfast.

“We wanted to help do something about it and so did 5,000 people who pledged a bunch via our facebook page. Thanks to them, we’re delighted to be donating 25,000 bananas. It is just a small step but we hope it will help the children at each of these schools get a good start.”

The KidsCan Charitable Trust provides food, shoes, raincoats and now fresh bananas for the pupils of low decile schools across New Zealand in order to stop the cycle of poverty leading to more educational failure and deprivation. Find out more about KidsCan at www.kidscan.org.nz

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