Community Special Projects

SPECIAL PROJECTS FUND $50,000

Kiwi Can is a values and life skills programme for 5-12 year olds delivered in 66 primary and intermediate schools across New Zealand, involving over 16,000 children.  The programme focuses on building children’s self esteem towards a positive future and engages them to develop a ‘can-do’ attitude.  It does so by helping them to become more confident, respect themselves and others, and be better prepared to handle the challenges and opportunities that life has to offer them.

While the programme focuses on the needs of the students, the schools have noticed positive signs that are benefiting not only the students but their families and communities.  Schools have reported that the atmosphere is more harmonious, teachers are able to relate to the students more positively and vice-versa, students have a greater desire to attend school, increased levels of numeracy and literacy, students are confidently developing a sound range of communication skills, parents are becoming more involved with the school, there’s a noticeable reduction in bullying and violence and school truancy, crime has decreased in the community, but most importantly there is respect for each other.

TECT invested $50,000 to the Youth Development Trust ‘Kiwi Can’ programme and is proud to contribute towards the people that will control the future of Tauranga.

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