Over 2023 our team worked together with Tamaki WRAP to support the roll out of food scraps with Auckland Council Waste Solutions. Check out all these amazing whānau that connected with our team and joined us in learning all about the food scrap service rolling out across Auckland. Summary Dates of engagements: July - December …
Pacific People Climate Action Project – Final Report
We ushered December in with the fourth gathering for our Climate Action Manava and discussed our relationship with Māori and our fatongia - our duties and obligations to support and protect our cousins here in Aotearoa. 2023 was a year of sharing and learning from each other and this project has allowed us to build …
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Pacific Peoples Climate Action Project
Over the last three months, we’ve teamed up with Pacific Vision Aotearoa to help Māori and Pasifika communities in Tāmaki Makaurau get stronger against climate change. This partnership led to the creation of our ‘Climate Manava,’ a monthly gathering of community leaders rooted in culture to explore strategies for community empowerment in climate action. Inspired …
Aōtearoa Kai Journey
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 2023
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 …
Panamasian Capability Growth
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
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 …
Panamasian Capability Growth
This has been a long term project and commitment in supporting the growth of local Riverside community group – Panamasian’s. Over the years (since 2020) the has included capability to run community events, growing community members capacity and capability and set up their own systems. The Maungakiekie-Tāmaki Local Board has been an ongoing support for us …
Aotearoa Conversations: Incorporating Te Ao Māori and Pacific Values into our Food Security Project during COVID-19
Working alongside Ākina and The Impact Initiative, Tara Moala and Philippa Holmes presented as part of the Social Enterprise World Forum Digital, on our experience of working within a Māori and Pasifika Collective and leaning on our indigenous values to create and grow an innovative response to the COVID10 lockdowns of 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HvVqOFu8lg&feature=youtu.be
Palliative Care Research
Working alongside Auckland University, we recruited participants that had experienced or were currently experiencing the Palliative Care System - this could be for themselves or their loved ones, while also experiencing low socio-economic conditions. The research included recruitment, relationship management, empathy interviews, documenting and implementation of possible ideas. Having found it difficult to recruit interviewees, …
Rākau Tautoko 