OUR COMMUNITY SERVICE
After more than a decade of delivery across South Auckland, we’re now focusing delivery at Ōtara where we are well known, strongly invested and have established a reputation for achieving effective solutions across the community.
Our strength is our long term commitment to South Aucklanders, and now with close relationships at Ōtara, our opportunities to leverage those critical skills our founders gained in their former corporate leadership roles, for this community.
OUR PURPOSE
We're serving our Ōtara community in three priority areas:
- Igniting learning passion with children, youth and adults through FREE local digital and aligned skills and innovation programmes, connections and partnerships through our STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Mātauranga) based “Geek Camps” in a broad based Kaupapa Māori, Pasifika context.
- Unlocking local potential through FREE digital and traditional upskilling programmes enabled by local collaborations supporting pathways to local employment and pastoral care; TRP (Te Rito Poipoia) Programme provides upskilling programmes: Digital skills, Literacy and Numeracy in the context of our Indigenous Māori and Pasifika knowledge and supports locals into local work.
- Enhancing entrepreneurial mindsets through our Community Enterprises based on our FREE Food Hub and FREE Upcycled Clothing and Homewares enterprises led by locals.
OUR PROGRAMME
What we’re offering our Ōtara Community:
- From our increasing community response and participation at our Ōtara base “We o Tara”, we’re sensing we have established a significant, genuine core in our community; reaching out, providing programmes and links for members of the community to connect with each other, with information and with agencies. We o Tara is a place where people can engage and learn new skills in a safe nurturing environment that provides immediate support and leads to a path for personal growth, resolution of issues and engagement in the workforce. Locals see it as their own.
- We o Tara has become a trusted, safe ‘front door’ for hard-to-reach members of our community with very high needs; family violence, drug and alcohol issues, food poverty, physical and mental health, unemployment and financial problems. By coming to us, we can support locals to link with people and services for help. These services increasingly find this most underserved community very difficult to engage with directly under their ways of working.