As of Monday 17, kids at two schools in Wellington will be getting free lunches through Eat My Lunch.

An organisation that has made hundreds and thousands of lunches for hungry school kids in Auckland and Hamilton has arrived in Wellington - and is off to a flying start.

For every lunch purchased through Eat My Lunch, it provides a free lunch for a child who needs it. Individuals can have their midday meal delivered to their workplace through a weekly subscription, and corporate catering is also provided.

In its first week of taking orders in Wellington, Eat My Lunch has been asked by Trade Me to provide lunch for 300 employees.

SUPPLIED Award-winning chef Michael Meredith and Lisa King started Eat My Lunch to change child poverty, one meal at a time.

The business launched in June last year, founder Lisa King said.

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After 15 years of marketing food, she heard there were kids going to school without lunch, and felt it was something that should not be happening in New Zealand.

SUPPLIED People can set up a weekly subscription to the organisation, which also offers corporate catering.

"Kids 10 to 15 minutes away from where we lived were going to school without food. I felt compelled to do something about it and came up with this idea."

She approached Michael Meredith, an Auckland chef, and he has been working with her since.

At the outset she expected to be making 50 or so lunches a day – but the pick-up was huge and now 1300 lunches were sent out to schools each day.

"None of us expected to get to this point."

The lunches were made by volunteers early each morning, in Auckland putting together 1300 meals in three hours.

The move to Wellington was to allow the business to start servicing the lower North Island, starting in the city first, King said. It was the first Eat my Lunch facility to be opened outside of Auckland.

Two schools, Holy Cross School in Miramar and Kahurangi in Strathmore Park will start getting 30 lunches each next Monday.

How many kids could benefit from the free lunch in the capital depended on how many lunches were bought.

"When we commit to a school, we commit to a number that is delivered every single day, and we have to make sure we have got enough buyers to sustain that.

"We kind of need to see how many lunches people buy before we take on different schools. I think it will happen quickly, I have faith in Wellingtonians."