How It All Started

Kerry Owen shares her story of how she came to found Feed the Need:

“My father, George Robinson was one of eleven children growing up in state housing in England. As a boy he didn't know what it felt like to have a 'full' tummy as his parents struggled to put food on the table. He can still recall his mother crying when she had nothing to offer her hungry children. When George commenced school he was entitled to free school meals. He thought he'd died and gone to heaven! His school performance exceeded expectations & he went on to lead a well-known international company.

If you believe, like I do, that everyone is here for a purpose, then I believe I found mine early on in life … and that's about positively impacting the lives of children. When I learned that NZ did not have a school lunch system like the UK where children in need could access a decent lunch. This deeply troubled me, and I began to wonder how many children were out there going to and from school hungry.

Compelled by my father's story and armed with my own personal experiences I made a start with our first school in 2012”.