“Harold goes Bush” – Saturday 29th Sept @ Memorial Park
Harold Club
Wairarapa Tararua & Central Hawkes Bay Life Education Trust
“GROWING UP in part determines who you are and who you’ll become as an adult. Behaviors developed during childhood and adolescence are predictors of adult behaviors.”
Life Education is a charity specifically involved in the education, development and well being of our young. Our purpose is to promote, advance and encourage education and welfare that benefits our young, and inevitably, our community.
Our purpose built classroom is moved throughout our region spending time at most of the 68 primary schools and their 7855 children. We deliver our exciting programme directly to the children with our own dedicated and fully registered teacher. Our lessons are complimentary and aligned to the NZ curriculum, and schools use our lessons to help them enhance and expand their programmes.
Life Education reinforces key messages about health across five strands that fit in with the curriculum: self-esteem/social relationships, food and nutrition, body knowledge, cyber safety and harmful substances. We aim to provide children (5 through to 13 year olds) with knowledge, so they can make informed decisions that will affect them as they grow up.
This really is, all about strengthening the “fence at the top of the cliff” BEFORE it becomes “the ambulance at the bottom”.
In the Wairarapa region we visit 18 schools, reaching a total of 2700 children .
The Trust has a substantial cost to operate including wages for our teacher and the cost of maintaining the classroom. We rely on donations and grants to fund the 80% shortfall over and above the $5 per child charge (which only covers about 20% of costs).
Our Trustees are all unpaid, passionate volunteers and all donations go directly to delivering the programme to your children ……………… our future!
We encourage everyone who shares our concern about the high rate of teen suicides, depression, anxiety and problems around substance abuse in our youths to help us by joining our Harold Club and make a donation to support our efforts. All donations are tax deductible.
Harold Club business members are kept in touch, and receive a certificate showing support of Life Education which can be displayed in your workplace/noticeboards/shop windows – Something to be proud of ….meet the team…..
- LIZ KIRKLAND Chair
- BECKS SAYER Treasurer
- GENE BARTLETT Trustee
- KAREN GOODALL Secretary
- KIRSTY JAMIESON Educator
- Email wairarapa@lifeed.org.nz
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