Welcome to the Home Educators Student Sports Association, HESSA.
Level the Playing Field for Every Kiwi Student
Home-educated students are locked out of student sports. We're here to change that.
HESSA (Home Educated Students Sports Access) is a registered charity founded in 2023 to advocate or fair and inclusive access to student sports for all Kiwi students—no matter how they’re legally educated.
🚨 Thousands of students are sidelined. As of July 2024, over 10,000 home-educated students are registered in Aotearoa. Nearly 4,000 of them are secondary school-aged—and barred from equal opportunities in week night and weekend student sports simply because of their learning pathway.
📣 HESSA is taking action. Backed by national media and public support, HESSA has launched a parliamentary petition asking the House of Representatives to make secondary-age student sport inclusive of all students.
✍️ Add your voice. Sign the petition now:
👉 our.actionstation.org.nz/p/sportforall
A students legal education shouldn't stop them from equal opportunities in sport. Let’s make sport fair for all.
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