Koputai Kids is a not-for-profit community childcare organisation for primary school aged children (5-13 years old). West Harbour, Dunedin.
Otago
Koputai Kids objectives are to provide high quality non-profit making community childcare during out of school hours, for new entrant to year 8 children (5-13 years old), with a focus on education and development of social and recreational skills. To ensure that the environment encompasses and reflects the different cultural values of the families which use it and of the community.
Koputai Kids is an after-school and holiday programme based in Port Chalmers, Dunedin. We cater to the whole West Harbour area. In recent years, the Ministry of Social Development has reduced funding to organisations such as ours, meaning that we have been faced with either running at a shortfall in our basic operating costs, or substantially increasing the fees that parents pay. At Koputai Kids we firmly believe that quality after-school and holiday care should be readily available and affordable for all members of the community so constantly increasing our fees is not a viable option for most parents in our area. We currently have four permanent staff and a number of causal staff working for us. We believe that Koputai Kids Inc directly contributes to people in the community having better access to appropriate services. To our knowledge, there are no school holiday programmes in the West Harbour area, and while there are some which run in Dunedin, these are often difficult to get access to, and comparatively expensive compared to Koputai Kids prices. As for our after-school care, neither Port Chalmers, Sawyers Bay or St Josephs have their own programmes so there would be no after-school care options for parents, other than picking up their children and taking them to Dunedin to participate in a programme there. That is not a practical option for working parents. We are always looking for funding opportunities and are very grateful for any assistance in this area!
All funds raised will go to running costs of our programmes.
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