This is the story of a collective group of people who did a ‘truckload of work’, with much personal sacrifice and professional skill and talent, to make Manurewa Intermediate School be a good place for kids – to help make those kids be better humans than they were the day before, to bring joy and a sense of optimism and hope for them all and to raise their presence, engagement and achievement, and at the same time to positively impact a wider group of whānau and community.