Kellogg’s is playing a part in helping to bring back a sense of normality to the lives of families affected by the devastating earthquake in Christchurch. The company donated $50,000 to the Salvation Army’s Canterbury Earthquake Appeal and donated cereal to over 1,000 Christchurch residents that were displaced as the result of the earthquake in [...]
Plunket and JOHNSON’S® baby have teamed up to celebrate dads this Father’s Day, with a charity auction on Trade Me. Famous Kiwi dads like Prime Minister John Key, Air New Zealand CEO Rob Fyfe, Mark Richardson from New Zealand’s favourite sports show The Crowd Goes Wild and Shane Cortese from Outrageous Fortune and Nothing Trivial [...]
Kids Friendly Travel’s (www.kidsfriendlytravel.com) first annual People’s Choice Award shows families believe the South Island to be a top destination to visit with children. The award looked for family-friendly attractions around New Zealand. The South Island came out on top, with six out of the 10 top places going to South Island attractions said Kids [...]
Plunket’s latest figures on breastfeeding indicate a steady increase in breastfeeding rates over the last 10 years. Plunket clinical advisor Allison Jamieson says that the figures are great news for New Zealand. “Breastfeeding rates in New Zealand are definitely improving – slowly but surely. Up to the age of six weeks 85 per cent of [...]
Ian Sinclair’s story on this week’s Sunday programme "highlights the importance of New Zealand parents being able to make free and informed decisions about vaccination" says Katherine Smith. Smith is the spokeswoman for No Forced Vaccines, an organisation set up to oppose coerced or forced vaccinations. "Most children manage to cope with the routine vaccination [...]
The KidsCan Charitable Trust is re-launching “In Our Own Backyard”, New Zealand’s first child sponsorship programme. The programme was introduced as a direct response to increasing levels of child poverty in New Zealand, and enables caring Kiwis to offer ongoing financial support to disadvantaged Kiwi children, 100 per cent of which will be used to [...]
Statistics New Zealand is updating information about reenrolment of students after the February 22 Christchurch earthquake on a weekly basis. As many as 9534 students who were enrolled in the Christchurch city, Selwyn district and Waimakariri district before the earthquake have re-enrolled in other schools around the country. This is 12.5 per cent of total [...]
News that the Government is opening up tenders to build and maintain two new schools in Hobsonville under a public-private partnership (PPP) is being greeted with concern by the Green Party. Green Party education spokesperson Catherine Delahunty said PPPs were bad news in the education sector. “Experience overseas suggests that however you set up a [...]
Votes are pouring in for the nation’s favourite children’s book as hundreds of school-age students cast their votes for the much-coveted Children’s Choice Award; one of the highlights of the prestigious 2011 New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards. The Children’s Choice Award is held in high regard by children’s writers and illustrators in New Zealand, [...]
