Life Education Launches Documentary

The Life Education Trust documentary takes you on a journey and highlights the great work Trevor Grice did to over come all odds in setting up Life Education Trust in New Zealand.

Trevor Grice founded Life Education in New Zealand in 1988. After twenty years helping addicted people, and after seeing many unnecessary deaths of New Zealand's young people, Trevor realised that equal emphasis needed to be put into prevention through education. As Trevor read, he fell in love with the idea of Life Education. He loved the innovation of the programme, of capturing children's imagination using technology and building their self-esteem at a young age. Every addict Trevor helped brought home to him the need to dramatise the fact "that there is no such thing as a nothing". Most youngsters in trouble had fused into their brain the belief that they were worth nothing. Low self-esteem, caused by all the ravages of addiction, prostitution, destitution and corruption, had most times seeded in early life.

Twenty years on, Life Education Trust continues to grow from strength to strength. We now have 36 Community Trusts dotted around the country, geared towards helping give the young people of New Zealand, through positive health-based education, the knowledge and skills to raise their awareness, to live a fulfilling and healthy life.

Watch the documentary. This is our story.