"The party's vision for our future is in perfect alignment with my own."
Ms Lee said the party's unconditional basic income policy of $200 per week would provide young families with the opportunity to escape "survival mode" and start enjoying a better quality of life.
The decent housing for decent people policy would change the current attitude towards renting, Ms Lee said.
"So housing will be seen as a social need, not as a means for profit. Every New Zealander deserves to have a home.
"Decent housing for decent people will create a secure and dignified means of living and provide children with warm, dry and stable home environments."
Ms Lee said the party's education policy acknowledged the current outdated system by creating a policy that was focused on preparing Kiwi children for the future.
"Critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication are skills the modern workforce is telling us they need.
"I know these policies will have a real impact on the quality of life for these families and provide them real opportunities to achieve a better life for themselves and others in their community.
"By reducing inequality and opening up real opportunities for our young people will help lower our current appalling teenage suicide rate."
Ms Lee described herself as a fair, community-minded and family-orientated woman.
She grew up in Tauranga during the 1970s and 1980s at a time when "we took pride in being a middle-class society that did not bear witness to the extremes of wealth and poverty".
"Some kids at school had more toys than others, went on more holidays and had bigger houses but we all ate breakfast and lunch, and all went home to a warm, secure, and dry environment."
But Ms Lee said ultimately people saw each other as equals. "We all had roughly similar opportunities, despite differences in our backgrounds."
She often witnessed the reality of life on the poverty line, Ms Lee said.
"It breaks my heart to see the same cars parked in the same parks every day knowing the kids inside are experiencing a life vastly different to that of my own at the same age," she said.
"Their choices and dreams are limited by immediate risks and stresses."
As a single parent, Ms Lee said she understood the struggle.
"I understand that an increasing number of families are in constant survival mode as they face high food costs and astronomical housing costs."
Ultimately Ms Lee wanted to achieve a party vote of five per cent or higher during her time as Tauranga's TOP candidate.
"As a country we can, and must do better. The Opportunities Party is the only party that truly represents change.
"I am proud to advocate TOP policies that will empower kids imprisoned by a poverty to follow their dreams and have faith in their futures."
TOP is yet to reveal its party list.