A unique project that ensures healthy lunches are offered to all schools within the South Waikato has received a major funding boost.

Ka Pai Kai South Waikato's healthy school lunches programme is one of three initiatives to be awarded a Momentum Waikato Vital Waikato Grant.

With no family of her own, Amanda B became the foster parent to seven needy children between the ages of 7 and 13, changing their lives irrevocably.

It takes a whole community to raise a child. This is the belief that drives the work of the team at Ka Pai Kai, a community-led social enterprise in the South Waikato and one of the three winners of a Vital Waikato Grant, from Momentum Waikato in April this year.

In partnership with the amazing folk at Momentum Waikato, Zeal Hamilton is on a three-year mission to transform young people in Hamilton's CBD through Street Youth Work.

The Vital Waikato grant, launched by Momentum Waikato in 2016, aims to respond to the Waikato's highest priorities by funding projects they believe will have the highest impact on the region.

A unique project that ensures healthy lunches are offered to all schools within the South Waikato has received a major funding boost.