Concerned about the level of child 
poverty in New Zealand but not sure what to do about it? Wanting to help children left behind by the growing disparity between rich and poor in this country?
Support our work and make child poverty a priority for action in Aotearoa.
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The Every Child Counts website has an excellent advocacy toolkit which gives clear and thorough advice to help you express your viewpoint constructively. It also has contact details for MPs and the media.
For ten years now some family allowances have been available to poor families only while they are not receiving any core benefit from Work and Income.
Since 1996, under National- and Labour-led governments, family assistance policy has consigned children to poverty when low-income parents can't work sufficient hours. In a low-wage economy offering little job security, with all the extra costs of raising a child, family income support is much needed. To give it selectively is to create an underclass.
Read more about the case's progress and read the legal documents.
Improving the quality and prosperity of New Zealand now and in the future.
CPAG supports Every Child Counts, a coalition of organisations and individuals whose goal is to see children at the centre of policymaking in New Zealand.
If New Zealand is to have a positive social and economic future then four things are absolutely vital:
For more information visit the Every Child Counts website or write to them at:
He Mana to ia Tamaiti
Every Child Counts
PO Box 6434
Wellington
Every single day, 30 000 children die as a result of extreme poverty. That's one child every three seconds. This year we finally have the resources, knowledge and opportunity to end this shameful situation. In 2005 thousands of people in countries all around the world came together to MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY once and for all.
MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY Aotearoa New Zealand
(www.makepovertyhistory.org.nz) is part of this massive global movement. It is made up of a coalition of organisations from across the country, including CPAG, who have come together to call for the New Zealand Government to play its part in ending poverty.
For more information, check out the international website www.whiteband.org and the UK website www.makepovertyhistory.org
Global Peace and Justice Auckland (GPJA) has launched a "Parasites on Poverty" Campaign.
A Global Peace and Justice Auckland (GPJA) campaign targets loan sharks and pokie machines. These 'Parasites on Poverty' have given the campaign its name.
Profits made by this kind of company often come at the expense of families in financial crisis - especially those trying to bridge the gap between low wages/low income and the money needed to keep a family above the poverty line, the campaign says.
The problem exists throughout New Zealand but is at its most acute in low income communities.
CPAG supports the POP campaign. CPAG does not accept any funding which comes from the proceeds of gambling.