As the school nurse at Auckland Seventh-day Adventist High School, Joanne Longstaff sees a lot come through her door. There are the kids with shoes falling off their feet – dad’s church shoes, two sizes too big – and the ones with shoes held together with tape. Even before Covid-19 hit, she found a lot of children were coming in to her office with headaches from dehydration, stomach cramps, lethargy. KidsCan/supplied Teachers are seeing more children coming to school without food in the wake of Covid. Chief executive Julie Chapman said that for some children, the food they got at school was their main nutrition for the day.

Source: Stuff November 18, 2020 16:00 UTC