Feeding the world's hungry is a noble cause usually championed by rock stars and Hollywood celebrities, but now a dying Auckland woman has come up with a radical idea to give neighbourhood kids a free and healthy bite to eat.
Carolyn Carter is dying from a brain tumour and can no longer get out to tend her fruit trees. She is campaigning to reduce hunger by planting fruit trees in public places.
Carter wants councils and community groups to plant hardy fruit trees such as plums, feijoas and citrus fruit, in public spaces.
Waitakere City Councillor Linda Cooper says it is a great way to get kids eating really healthy food.
"What a great way for kids to be educated on where food actually comes from."
With help from Cooper, Carter has contacted MPs and local government and now she wants support from the public.
Councils say the biggest problem with the scheme, is that people do not actually eat the fruit. It ends up rotting on the ground, and that causes complaints.
But Carter says people just need to be told they are allowed to take the fruit and she hopes one day that is what they will be able to do
