KidsCan

The KidsCan Charitable Trust (trading as KidsCan) is a charitable trust. Founded in 2005 in Greenhithe, Auckland, New Zealand by Julie Chapman, it works to help New Zealand kids living in poverty (defined as living at 60% or less of the median wage, or one in four New Zealand children) through a variety of programmes (In Our Own Backyard, Food for Kids, Shoes for Kids, Raincoats for Kids, Warm Kids Cool Kids and Health for Kids). They provide food, socks, shoes and raincoats to over 46,000 disadvantaged children.

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 (where at least six out of sixteen predefined items and services like fresh fruit and vegetables, meat, a good bed, ways to keep warm, electricity bills etc. are not affordable) while 3 out of 5 kids already living in poverty have lived like that (with their income under the poverty line) for seven years or more.