2 Jun 2021

The Social Stigma of Hungry Children

From Nights, 7:10 pm on 2 June 2021

Anthropologist and Child Health researcher, Dr Julie Spray spent 2015 eating lunch with primary school students in a disadvantaged part of South Auckland, where she learned that providing free school meals can be a lot more complex than simply sating hunger.

Read her article here.

Lunch preparation at Flat Bush School.

Lunch preparation at Flat Bush School. Photo: RNZ / Nick Monro