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Napier Family Centre,
Napier Family Centre requested an unprecedented 250 food parcels from Foodbank on behalf of its clients for the year ending 30 June 2009.
We are just over three and a half months into the 2009–2010 financial year and have already requested 100 food parcels from Foodbank said Roydon Day, Napier Family Centre CEO.
We are just over three and a half months into the 2009–2010 financial year and have already requested 100 food parcels from Foodbank
Their latest annual report released this week shows Napier Family Centre's budget service took on 165 more clients than in previous years.
Normally our budget service would expect 300 new clients per annum. In the last 12 months over 465 clients sought help representing a total debt of $21million , said Roydon.
Normally our budget service would expect 300 new clients per annum. In the last 12 months over 465 clients sought help representing a total debt of $21million
There were over 700 children in our community in households struggling with serious financial hardship. And those are just the families we are aware of so what sort of numbers of children are actually out in our communities living in very poor household conditions?
Having shown a 40% increase in the numbers of people using its social services across the areas of family support, youth programmes, budgeting and counselling over the past two years, Napier Family Centre is gearing up to meet further growth in demand.
In all the talk about the economic recession, one term that comes up more and more frequently is something called the new normal. After years of economic expansion fuelled by unrealistic rates of consumption and unsustainable levels of private debt the global economy has reset at a lower baseline level of activity. Today people, and organisations such as ours, will have to do more with less.
Despite the challenges posed by the global economic reset, I'm optimistic about the long term opportunities that lie ahead for families and the Napier Family Centre. There are encouraging signs that growth may resume in many parts of the world but I also believe we are entering a period of personal and economic growth, a flowering of innovation. This new normal is driven not by debt and consumption but by rising productivity and new ideas that provide real value to people throughout their lives.
Despite the challenges posed by the global economic reset, I'm optimistic about the long term opportunities that lie ahead for families and the Napier Family Centre.
There are encouraging signs that growth may resume in many parts of the world but I also believe we are entering a period of personal and economic growth, a flowering of innovation.
This new normal is driven not by debt and consumption but by rising productivity and new ideas that provide real value to people throughout their lives.
Published: Monday, 12 October 2009.