community

Kōrero with Josh Wharehinga

# Community Initiatives and Doers, Kids are Awesome, Kōrero

• community, council, councillor, gisborne, gizzy, josh, kaiti beach, wharehinga

*Warning this clip contains some sensitive topics of discussion and the odd swear word* It also contains a pretty inappropriate joke from one of our boys. 🙄 New Zealand is a small country but we continue to be surprised at the uniqueness of each area we visit. The first thing we noticed about Gisborne was how...MORE

Do You See?

# Kōrero

• children, community, family, responsibility, wellbeing, whanau

This is our family. Chris and I were raised in happy, healthy homes, we were believed in, were told we were loved every day and so grew up with the confidence that we could do whatever it was we wanted to do with our lives. We both have degrees and had our own children surrounded...MORE

Tone 6 Sing on the Bus!

# A Bus and a Big Back Yard, Community Initiatives and Doers, Kids are Awesome

• adease, auckland, bus jam, community, getting stronger, kiwi kids, saintzup, sing, supa, talent

DISCLAIMER – anyone who knows me will know I'm prone to cry when I hear beautiful music – so I'm going to be really offended if you don't feel the same connection and joy that I experience when listening to these beautiful kids 😉 The most effective programmes we have visited so far that are...MORE

Highlights from our first 5 months!

Check it out! Here are just a few of the many amazing people we have met on the road so far. We still have so many of these stories to share.While we have seen and heard many 'hard' stories on the road – we have also shared in the incredible joy that so many people...MORE

Acts of Kindness

# Community Initiatives and Doers, Kōrero

• acts of kindness, child abuse, children, community, value

I want to share something real – a passion project happens when you feel so emotionally bound by something, you have to make it happen. The problem is that the deeper you delve into the project, you can actually start to become numb to information and the heart drive becomes lost, replaced by a systematic...MORE

About Link Arms

# Events, Link Arms NZ

• aotearoa, child abuse, children, community, it takes us all, kiwi kids, link arms, New Zealand, nz, prevention, stop the bus, tamariki, te awamutu, value

Te Awamutu linking arms for our children event This is what the linking of arms is all about… Who will join us?Te Awamutu, it starts with you on the 9th July at 2pm. Just a small moment of time where we as a town link together acknowledging that we can all help make a difference...MORE

Dinner at the Ritz

# Community Initiatives and Doers, Events

• community, dinner, kaeo, kai, new beginnings church

When our family first arrived at Kaeo we had no idea what we would find. We stopped in at the service center and asked where we could park in town and they allowed us to park next to the Memorial Hall. It didn’t take long to discover some of the hardship this town has faced,...MORE

Kiwi kid ingenuity

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# Events, Kids are Awesome

• community, hazelmere, kiwi kids, picnic, te awamutu, waterfight

Today is Children’s Day New Zealand. Children’s day, Te Ra O Ngā Tamariki, is all about giving time, praising and encouraging, listening and talking, sharing love and affection and exploring new experiences. It just so happens that today our very own neighborhood in Hazelmere, Te Awamutu had a community picnic and waterfight. Here is an awesome example...MORE