Building engagement and empowerment
On the 25th March 2023 we hosted the Ope Youth Wānanga. We had a great group of local youth that came out and took part in this wānanga. We loved spending that time with you and hearing you share your ideas! Tara and Haare led this wānanga on the day with Carla being out due …
As we move from the Aōtearoa Kai Journey project to our new Kai Sovereignty project we are excited to be able to provide more gardens and chickens to whānau in need in the local community. Together, partnering with Whenua Warrior, who supply the garden beds and soil, along with The Patchwork Gardens, with hands on …
Love Food Hate Waste is a series of workshops we will be running to teach others how to change habits around food waste and upskill with our budgeting, preparing kai and how to make food last further on a budget. Some topics we hope to cover in these workshops are: meal planning and kai that …
It all started with The Kai Collective Project which was a collective of community groups and leaders that came together to respond to the COVID-19 crisis, creating a Food Hub that provided local groups and community leaders with food that they then distributed directly to whānau in need in our community. From here we learned …
The HEART Movement is a community-led initiative in Tamaki, East Auckland, which celebrated it's tenth anniversary in February 2022. HEART was developed from conversations between community organisations and community members about working to prevent family violence before it happens it happens rather than only responding to violence after it has occurred. 2023 sees The HEART …
This past year (2022) has seen ongoing growth and community led responses by Panamasians ō Tuia, who formalised their Trust, and developed a weekly wellbeing workshop programme focussed around Te Ao Maori principles of manaakitanga, whanaungatanga and tikanga. These workshops have seen elderly residents at a local rest home the ability to connect and engage …
Ope (noun) army, troop, party, entourage, contingent - group of people moving together. Ope is an Auckland Council programme to help connect Enviroschools and the community around waste reduction and climate change activities. Rākau Tautoko practitioners Tara, Carla and Haare are working in partnership with Tāmaki WRAP Community Activators Sarah, Kristine and Sam to engage with …
On 14th July 2022 we held our Kai Central soft launch with a small gathering, this also coincided with the wrapping up of our Kai Collective work and we were able to celebrate the end of this work together with the Kai Collective Leads from the community. We signed up 30 - 50 beta users …
To see the full report click here. Phenomenal Young Women began in July 2018 originally in response to youth suicide prevention in Tāmaki. In previous years we organised weekly gatherings open for local young women to come along to and participate in empowering, confidence building and fun activities. After pivoting due to covid and needing …
Rākau Tautoko was approached by the Infrastructure and Environmental Services team at Auckland Council to facilitate community engagement workshops with key community stakeholders in Maungakiekie-Tāmaki, to seek feedback about their climate action priorities. We held two online workshops in March 2022 which focused on gathering community input towards identifying goals, barriers and priorities around climate …
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