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MANA Leader and MP for Te Tai Tokerau Hone Harawira

Song and Video Released to Promote Feed the Kids

Wednesday 8th May

A song and video featuring a young Kiwi rapper has been produced to promote Hone Harawira’s Feed the Kids bill which comes up for its first reading on Wednesday 5TH June.

The track, titled Stand Up and Fight, features Kiwi artist Joshy E and asks New Zealanders to open their eyes to child poverty in our country.

It is estimated that 270,000 Kiwi children are living in poverty with 80,000 going to school hungry each day.

“Kids need food to learn” says bill sponsor Hone Harawira.  “No food, no learning, not much of a future”.

The Feed the Kids bill proposes government-funded food in schools programmes for decile one and two schools.

Labour, Greens, Maori Party, New Zealand First, and independent MP Brendan Horan have said they will support the Bill at first reading but one more vote is needed to cross the threshold and send it to the Select Committee stage. Pressure is mounting on National, especially since John Key has promised to introduce government-funded food in schools programmes in the past.

Joshy E says that being part of this campaign is the least he can do to support the bill. “It’s time for everyone to wake up and see that child poverty doesn’t just happen in other places, it’s happening here, now. This bill is a real step to help stopping that.”

Stand Up and Fight is available for free download from http://feedthekids.org.nz  and you can check out the video at http://youtu.be/V4hDkENOy6M.

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