Kamo's Milk and Honey cafe raises $1750 for Tearfund NZ from meal costing $2.85 to create

Kamo's Milk and Honey cafe team managed to raise $1750 for an NZ charity through its Dine Below the Line event. Photo / Supplied

A Kamo cafe with a big heart and a creative menu managed to raise a whopping $1750 for poverty charity Tearfund NZ by creating dishes for as little as $2.85 in its Live Below the Line event.

The team at Milk and Honey cafe ran the Dine Below the Line fundraiser on March 15 for Tearfund NZ, the globally connected poverty outreach programme dear to their hearts.

Milk and Honey opened in Kamo last September, to boost the cafe culture of the north Whangarei suburb and also provide a meeting place. The cafe also features a boardroom.

The partnership includes Kelly and Helen Ludlow and Carl and Janine Worthington – two Christian couples who wanted to improve Kamo's cafe offering.

Helen, a barista and cafe manager, and chef Carl had worked together, and the two couples decided to invest in the cafe.

As the couples are supporters of Tearfund NZ, the cafe challenged chef Carl to get creative in the kitchen for the Dine Below The Line event.

"Carl the chef managed to create dishes that cost no more than $2.85 each, and our customers were so generous in their donations to the charity," said Kelly Ludlow.

"It's terrible to think that the majority of the world live on less than $2.85 a day, with little or no opportunity to make a living wage.

"We were delighted to be able to help Tearfund."

Tearfund's partners work to enable sustainable enterprise opportunities, such as self-help groups in India and farming co-operatives in the Philippines.