Thoughts

Aotearoa, land of the long wide bare cupboard

This Child Poverty Action report explains why our volunteers have been busy packing & distributing food boxes to families during Covid-19

The number of Māori women imprisoned without conviction has nearly doubled after law change

Being in remand cuts off women from their whanau and children and can have a serious impact on children, which is why we run Mothers Project

Why Prison Reform is an Educational Issue

Education can help to create the safer communities we all want to live in. Education is the key to severing our prison pipeline.

Child poverty hurts and needs everyone

Child poverty in New Zealand is back in the public spotlight following release of the 2018 Child Poverty Monitor report last week. The...

Best Start Quarterly Magazine asks...

"Who did you help today?" may seem a simple question, but the power lies in asking.

Lifelong learning - a light in the tunnel

Written by Stacey Shortall; 6 December 2018 The statistics are well known. One in four children in New Zealand live under the income...

We should educate prisoners - it works

Opinion: Ballooning prisoner numbers is not a uniquely New Zealand problem. Nor is it new.