What's Happening - Lifewise

Homelessness and poverty go hand in hand. NZ has the highest rate of homelessness in the OECD. Lifewise turns lives around by addressing both issues.

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Poverty and How it Can Lead to Homelessness

Homelessness and poverty go hand in hand. NZ has the highest rate of homelessness in the OECD. Lifewise turns lives around by addressing both issues.

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BSO2016 homelessness Housing First Merge Cafe Merge Community

Housing First Auckland City Centre: Responsiveness to Māori

"Housing First is much more than a new programme," said Sophia Beaton and Sarah Greenaway. "It is about changing the system to put people at the centre."

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Kia ora, from Moira

When someone who Lifewise has housed says, “I never believed this could happen for me” I feel humble and reassured.

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From left: Sarah, Marlena, Andrea, Sharon, and Valda, are some of Vital 5's teachers.

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Welcome to my family

"This is a story of how far a compliment can go," says Marlena, one of the teachers at Lifewise's early childhood education centres

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Better homes for the elderly

Lifewise’s sister organisation, Airedale Property Trust is redeveloping Everil Orr Retirement Village in Auckland's Mt Albert.

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BSO2017 Family Services homelessness youth homelessness

Kai time!

Lifewise's Youth Housing Service recently joined hands with Monte Cecilia and VisionWest for a cooking workshop called Kai time!

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Mental Health And Addiction Rotorua

My first pounamu

Residents of Lifewise Rotorua designed their own taonga, in an effort to ensure that the mana (pride) and mauri (life) is preserved.

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early childhood education vital 5

A lifelong love for nature

At Lifewise's Vital 5 early childhood education centres, our teachers create an educational, nurturing and caring environment.

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Big Sleepout homelessness Merge Cafe youth homelessness

Merge Community Peer Team

Providing support and advocacy to people in the homeless community through Lifewise Merge Café.

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SPLICE is an initiative that invites individuals, groups, organisations and networks from across Auckland City Centre to engage in an adventure: to unravel who we each are, and to develop relationships and actions that create authentic community and social justice. We practice radical hospitality and inclusiveness as a core function.

Big Sleepout homelessness Merge Cafe neighbours day Splice

Have you met the Splice team?

Our sister organisation in the Methodist Mission Northern family brings together city centre residents.

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What’s
Happening

Poverty and How it Can Lead to Homelessness

Housing First Auckland City Centre: Responsiveness to Māori

Kia ora, from Moira

Welcome to my family

Better homes for the elderly

Kai time!

My first pounamu

A lifelong love for nature

Merge Community Peer Team

Have you met the Splice team?

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