Chris Parker

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171 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard May 2026 last heard 5 Jun

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ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley · Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 28th May 2026 · 27 May 2026 podcast

Yeah, basically, look, you don't want to be that downer, but a lot of Kiwis can kind of put their head in the sand around kids going to school struggling.

And they're like, really?

I haven't seen that in my neighbourhood.

It's in every pocket of New Zealand.

And right now, look, we know it's insanely tough out there.

You've got your fuel crisis.

You've got groceries going up and now heading into winter.

Families seriously have to choose between putting food in a lunchbox or trying to put petrol in the car or trying to pay the power bill.

So this is Kids Can's urgent appeal right now, 20 for 20.

$20 to help with the 20% of New Zealand kids that are currently kind of waking up and not knowing if they're going to have food in the cupboard or not.

I know, it's a scary number.

It's one in five if you're struggling with that, Hayley, which is also another way to put it.

One in five kids.

it's crazy and recently they did a quick survey with 400 Kids Can partner schools and 84% of the schools were saying that they haven't seen the financial stress on families like this in forever so it's out there sometimes I do my part where I try and get the message out through social media and make the videos and get them out there and I wish I could just reach through screens and kind of sit one on one with people and sit them down and tell them the back story it's

It's hard to get people to convert into clicks and donate, but it's insanely important right now.

There's so many kids struggling.

So if you can, 20for20.org.nz is the website.

Hey, skip a few coffees, skip a few pies this week.

It isn't too tough.

It would stretch back eight years ago.

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