‘’You are amazing no matter what" was just one of the messages left on cans donated to the Katikati Christian Foodbank.

The Can Drive was run by our Year 7 & 8 Katikati College students as part of the Graeme Dingle Foundation KiwiCan programme.

One of the Team Leaders, Jade Raumati, stated “A huge part of what we do with KiwiCan is teaching our tamariki lessons that help them connect to their community and help make it a more positive, kind and compassionate place through their actions and attitudes”.

This drive supported a lesson where the students were to think of worldwide issues and together come up with a way to tackle those issues and make a difference. The issues range from social media to traffic congestion, to poverty.

With this, we then led the students to think of an issue that affects us closer to home and in which we could make a difference – poverty happened to be the unanimous decision, and the Can Drive idea was born.