Intermediate School’s cyclone fundraiser

By Frank Neill

Wainuiomata Intermediate School has raised $880 in cash together with half a truck load of food and supplies for communities affected by Cyclone Gabrielle.

The school’s fundraising initiative was celebrated at a school assembly on 24 February.

“The community was amazing,” the school’s Principal, Craig Sharp, says.

“A lot of families have wh nau in the Hawke’s Bay and up the East Coast, so it was really personal for them.”

One student, Nikita Guy, raised $127 of the $880 the school totalled.

To mark Nikita’s achievement Mr Sharp presented her with the school’s Tikanga Certificate at the school assembly.

This certificate was presented to Nikita for being the best in the school at demonstrating Wainuiomata Intermediate’s four core values over the previous two weeks.

The core values are Rangatiratanga, Kaitiakitanga, Manaakitanga and Wh naungatanga.

Nikita sold some of her belongings, including about 15 stuffed animals she had made to earn the money she put towards the fundraising for the cycleone, Nikita told the “Wainuiomata News”.

One member of the school council, Zaria Simpson, said that her class had raised $185.50 in cash.

In addition class members had donated towels, blankets, sanitary material, canned food and packets of noodles.