Poverty is one of the problem in New Zealand. Many children will slip in and out of poverty as family circumstances change. Job loss or redundancy, illness and costly medical treatment, relationship breakdown They don’t having enough money to meet basic needs, food, clothing and shelter. Every one is born equal and has the right to an adequate standard of living including food, clothing, housing and medical care, and to security at times of unemployment, sickness or old age.The repercussions of Poverty may vary in scale, but all carry a negative effect, regardless of political, economic, social.
The Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries like New Zealand set their poverty lines at 50% to 60% below the average wage. This means that you are considered poor in New Zealand if your wage or household income is 50% to 60% lower than the average wage. In 2006-07, it is estimated that 22% of NZ children were living in beneath the 50% poverty line (230,000 children). The percentage of New Zealand children living beneath the 60% poverty line (170,000 children) was 16%
Kids can is charitable trust. Established in 2005 Auckland, New Zealand by Julie Chapman and Carl Sunderland. and works to help New Zealand kids who living in poverty and provide the necessity , such as foods shoes raincoats basic hygiene, to the schools that it support 468 schools across New Zealand.
The Child Poverty Monitor is a partnership between the New Zealand Children's Commissioner, the JR McKenzie Trust and the University of Otago who measures and reports on New Zealand child poverty annually. According to them, 265,000 kids live in poverty in New Zealand. 17% of New Zealand kids live in material hardship while 3 out of 5 kids already living in poverty have lived like that for seven years or more.