Twenty-four years ago, after 28 years of teaching, Wainuiomata College PE teacher, Bill Sharp, began a breakfast club for boys who needed help to stop them going off the tracks. He set up the Futures Programme, and invited the boys to a local hall two mornings a week, where he got them doing an hour of exercise, then he fed them a hot, cooked breakfast and gave them some life coaching and help with homework before sending them off to school. To begin with, he didn't even know if they'd turn up at five in the morning. Today, there are hundreds of young men who have been mentored through the programme. Bill joins Karyn to explain why the boys get out of bed and turn up. Breakfast, of course!
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