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Increasing food prices, coupled with record high petrol prices and last year’s GST increase, were stretching family budgets beyond their limits according to Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei. She was responding to a news report about a mother living on a diet of two-minute noodles so that she can buy bread to feed her children.
According to Kitty McKinley “Hundreds of families living here in the Wellington Region live through unnatural disasters – poverty, injustice, exclusion and alienation. They form a raw underbelly of New Zealand Society who are not seen or heard except by those who work with them.”
“Many injustices need addressing in our country – the challenge is to keep on working to make Aotearoa New Zealand what it can be – a place of hope, justice and unity. Let’s keep doing it!” she said.
Kitty McKinley who is the founder of Challenge 2000 and a Social Worker for 35 years, was recognised for her Services to Youth and the Community when she was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit at Government House last week.
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Mum living on noodles so kids can eat properly – Northern Advocate
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