In the space of just four weeks, Bay of Plenty man Grant O'Connor has taken a simple loaf of bread and traded up to an entire kitchen.

But the Auckland teacher isn't stopping there, and he won't call time on his mission until he has a whole house.

Grant O'Connor is hoping to eventually get a house for a deserving family.

'From a loaf of bread, the idea is to swap for bigger and better things until we get to a house,” explains Grant. But here's the refreshing catch - the house isn't for him.

'I have been teaching my children about being less selfish,” he says, 'so I got the idea of swapping things for something bigger and better after seeing all of the people out there who can't even get state housing.

'We looked at how we can give our time and energy to others who really need some happiness. At the end of it, we want to be able to provide a house to a deserving family in need.

'I picked this up about four weeks ago, brought it into school after the holidays, introduced it to my class and we have been going since then.”

Since beginning the project, Grant and his students from Auckland's Grey Lynn School have swapped a loaf of bread for two DVDs, which were then swapped for eight Nintendo Wi games.

'We got a Nintendo Wi donated from a group of children out at Pukekohe. We then used that, along with the eight games, as a package and traded it for a new toilet.”

Grant has recently two premium cinema seats for a water blaster, then traded the water blaster for a kitchen. He is planning on finding a family to donate the toilet to.

'Now we have a kitchen to trade,” he says.

People who want to help out and have something they want to swap are encouraged to contact Grant via his email: grantoc30@gmail.com or they can touch base with him via the other contact details on our blog and Facebook.