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Coast’s Celebrity Bake Sale for Kiwi kids and Variety – the Children’s Charity
Coast is helping to raise funds to support families getting their kids back to school.
Sadly, 1 in 5 Kiwi kids are going without school uniforms and stationery. Just $50 a month can help, so the Coast’s awesome breakfast team Toni, Jase and Sam are going to run a fabulous bake sale to help raise funds for Kiwi kids in need.
Celebrity friends of the Coast and Variety have kindly offered to help by baking their most delicious creations. You can bid on your favourite (or favourites). The winning bidders will have their chosen baked good created and couriered to them.
Variety’s Back to School Appeal
Children are missing out on the start of school year because they don’t have the uniforms, stationery supplies or devices they need. This can have devastating long-term consequences on a child's confidence and ability to learn.
Education is free in New Zealand, but the tools to access it aren’t. Right now, caregivers across the country are agonising over how to pay for the essentials that would help their child thrive at school this year.
By supporting Variety you’re helping to give Kiwi kids the correct stationery, a well-fitting uniform, and the chance to learn new skills - you are giving them a brighter future.
Your generous support is vital at the start of the new school year, so Kiwi kids aren’t left behind.
You can find out more at www.variety.org.nz
If you would like to sponsor a Kiwi kid to give them what they need to thrive, you can sign up here. [https://www.variety.org.nz/donate/give-monthly/sponsor-a-kiwi-kid].
Variety has more than 1,400 kids waiting for a sponsor across Aotearoa New Zealand.
About Variety – the Children’s Charity
Every day, 1 in 5 Kiwi kids go without the basics that most of us take for granted. Variety focuses on improving the health, education and wellbeing of children and young people experiencing financial hardship, sickness and disability. We work alongside schools, community agencies, social workers, and healthcare professionals to identify Kiwi kids in need.
Variety offers tailored and flexible support to New Zealand children and whanau living in poverty. We acknowledge not all children need the same things and recognise that caregivers and those working closest with children are best placed to make decisions on what they need.
With the generous support of individuals and organisations across New Zealand, Variety helps parents and caregivers pay for the costs of essential things their child needs to stay healthy, to go to school and to take part in their community.
Variety Kiwi Kid Sponsorship connects a caring New Zealander with an individual child to provide them with the basics and life opportunities they would otherwise miss out on. For $50 a month, a sponsor can give a child access to the same opportunities as other kids, a happier, healthier childhood and the foundation for a better future.
It can pay for essential items such as clothing, bedding, school costs, extra-curricular activities, medical fees and technology.
Variety offers individual grant assistance for children and child-focused organisations in challenging circumstances. We fund a broad range of requirements from essential items to much-needed medical or mobility equipment, educational assistance, therapeutic care and IT devices to enhance learning opportunities.
Variety’s Beds for Kids: Every year, 28,000 children are hospitalised for diseases linked to poor sleeping environments. For the past four years, Variety has partnered with the government's Healthy Home Initiative (HHI) to fund new beds and warm bedding for children and babies sleeping in unsafe, unhealthy conditions.
Variety currently supports around 8,000 Kiwi kids – 7,000 through Kiwi Kid Sponsorships, and an average of 1,000 kids with individual grants annually.
Variety New Zealand is a part of Variety International. The original Variety was founded as a social club in 1927 by a group of 11 entertainers in Pennsylvania. On Christmas Eve 1928, a one-month-old baby girl was found abandoned on a seat in the Sheridan Theatre. The 11 friends decided to underwrite the support and education costs of the baby. Publicity surrounding Catherine and her benefactors attracted so much support from both the show business industry and the general public that following her adoption at the age of five, the recently formed Variety Club decided to actively raise funds in the cause of children in need. Their efforts established Variety as “the children’s charity”.
Variety New Zealand was established in 1989 - all funds raised here, stay in Aotearoa New Zealand for the benefit of children.
Thank you for your support www.variety.org.nz.
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