sentences:  17% of New Zealand kids live in material hardship (where at least six out of sixteen predefined items and services like fresh fruit and vegetables, meat, a good bed, ways to keep warm, electricity bills etc.are not affordable) while 3 out of 5 kids already living in poverty have lived like that (with their income under the poverty line) for seven years or more.KidsCan was founded with a NZ$40,000 grant from Guardian Trust.