A $10,000 grant to fund a Great Kai Facilitator to work across three Masterton primary schools delivered learning benefits to 180 students around how to grow, harvest, prepare and share healthy kai. As well as gaining practical skills to grow food, tamariki learned about seasonality and the natural cycles that affect crops – essential to understanding climate change.
Children learned how to take action for food resilience. “Taking action fosters hope and lessens the anxiety that many young people now experience,” Gill Stewart, Enviroschools Community Facilitator.