Minutes from Kawaha Point Primary School in Rotorua is Linda Edwards home.
Linda trained as a teacher but never really taught - but she did notice though that there were a lot of families struggling with childcare after school.
So she started taking children home - until she had a full house.
The big kids are the hired help.
“They really do come until they’re at high school and then from high school on I hire them,” she says.
Ms Edwards has been doing this for twenty-odd years.
“I think it’s given me a huge richness and purpose,” she says.
The former-Miss New Zealand does it because she knows working families need the help.
She either charges very little or nothing, her generosity extending to buying a chrome-book for one of the kids.
“I will continue [doing this] for years and years,” she says.
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