Building engagement and empowerment
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 …
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 …
Continue reading "Climate Action Plan Project (Final Blog Post)"
Supported by the Maungakiekie-Tāmaki Local Board, 22 x mentoring sessions were offered with over 20 x people throughout Maungakiekie- Tāmaki. Through those sessions, participants skills were developed in filming and editing video’s using smartphones, content strategy for social media, technical support and communication platforms, and designing digital graphics using online software. It has become very …
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
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, …
This consisted of the creation of a collective of community groups which came together to support our whānau most in need of food support. The collective responded by creating a network of food rescue, purchasing and distributing through many different local leaders in East and South Auckland. This was started in the first lockdown, in …
Continue reading "The Kai Collective – Our COVID-19 Response"
Working alongside a collective of amazing community food distributors during COVID19 lockdown has been an amazing experience for Rākau Tautoko. We have been very lucky to have received a grant from Foundation North to delivery kai support to our more in need whānau through Alert Level 3. Over this time, we decided to throw Business …
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Mentoring HEART Change Agents to create and run community events in Tāmaki to enable healthy relationships and prevent family violence through local community BBQ’s, relationship workshops & the Mana Wāhine conference that was held online due to the lockdown restrictions. Click through to see the HEART Movement in action on their website and facebook page.
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