At our last meeting we were privileged to have Steve Farrallyalong to update us re his programme based on helping children in high need schools remove obstacles that restrict them in participating in their school’s curriculum.
In 2007 Steve, who is now retired from his role of detective in the NZ police, returned from a trip to the USA with enthusiasm to duplicate in a kiwi way what he had witnessed at the Dream Centre in Los Angeles.
The aims of that organisation were to “find a need and satisfy it, find a hurt and heal it.” Steve, along with his wife Brenda, resolved to introduce the programme to the Glen Innes area starting at the Randwick Park school. With the support of Epson and East Auckland rotary clubs, his journey began,
Breakfast club now has an amazing team of volunteers who help in many different ways assisting to make schools a place that kids wish to attend.
Feeding children is always a priority but it is also a very useful vehicle for conversations on what are the wider issues impacting on learning and ascertaining what needs to be done.
The problems identified by Steve are widespread and perhaps this is an area we as a club could be involved in. The needs are there, and Steve is the active and dedicated leader to drive the programme.
So, what can we as a Rotary club, which has similar aims to the breakfast club, do to assist in the future? A question that could be on the agenda for the next Rotary year.
The current board resolved to donate $750 to the programme from the Sunshine Fund.
