We all go through times when we need the support of others. Visionwest is here to provide you with help today so you can have hope for tomorrow.

Visionwest exists to address homelessness, reduce poverty, support the elderly, and ensure young people have hope for the future.

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clients to live independently

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families with safe, affordable housing

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young people to find an employment pathway

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Kiwis are doing it tough across New Zealand. Get involved and be part of the story of hope and transformation.

Visionwest Christmas Club

Join the Visionwest Christmas Club today and give the gift of joy to a struggling family this Christmas. Your donations will help fill empty fridges and pantries and gift toys for children who will otherwise miss out.

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Help Ease The Burden Of Poverty

With your help, we can provide Winter Care Packs and Emergency Food Parcels to meet immediate need, and Budgeting and Counselling support to help transform lives into the future.

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Work With Us

We are always looking for people who have the desire and the drive required to transform someone’s life. If you would like to be part of the team, we invite you to apply for a role at Visionwest.

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Violet’s Story – Housing Out West

“If I knew someone who was struggling in anyway, especially with housing, I’d say, ‘Contact Visionwest, they’ll help you out,’ because, if it wasn’t for Visionwest, I’d still be homeless. Probably staying with my daughter or at someone else’s house.” Some years ago,...

Adam’s Story – Youth Justice Mentoring

Mentoring young people is not always easy but there’s something awesome about working with a young person and then meeting them seven years later, and they come up to you and say, ‘remember me?’ Seeing kids you worked with before and having them come up to you like...

Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2022

This week, all across Aotearoa New Zealand, people celebrated Te Wiki o te Reo Māori – Māori Language Week. This year it has included a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of te Petihana Reo Māori – the Māori Language Petition. The petition, presented to parliament...

Ruci’s Housing Story – More Than Just a Roof

When we moved into our Visionwest housing, we felt so grateful. After five years of marriage, it was the first time we had ever been able to be together alone. I was so happy, I cried. Ruci and her family had been living in a three-bedroom house with three other...

Josh’s Story – Rangatahi Training and a Focus on the Future

When Josh talks of Visionwest and the Pae Aronui rangatahi training course, the first thing he mentions is manaakitanga and how that love and acceptance transformed his life. Josh had been with Visionwest’s youth training courses on and off for a while and had been in...

Barry and Florence’s Housing Story – One Bedroom, Seven People

Barry and Florence* had retired and were living in a one-bedroom unit in a retirement village when family circumstances led five of their grandchildren to come and live with them. It was overcrowded and stressful, but they couldn’t find alternative housing and they...

Tania’s Story – Mātanga Oranga Part 2

For the first time in my life, I can think about the future. The first thing I want to do is help rescue my whānau from carrying the same weight I was carrying when I first came in here. They can see how I’ve changed, and it is both challenging and inspiring for them....

Esera’s Story – More than housing the homeless

When Esera opened his home to a man who had no place to stay, he also had his eyes opened to the many people in our community who are experiencing homelessness. As he explains: “I brought this man down to Visionwest so he could get some food and, when I saw all that...

Milanda’s Story – support and guidance makes all the difference

Ask Milanda what life was like a couple of years ago and she will speak of family stress and the incredible difficulty she and her husband had trying to make ends meet. Like many families throughout Aotearoa New Zealand today, they had a steady income but with rising...

Faye’s Story – Mātanga Oranga Part 1

Since November 2019, Faye has been the Mātanga Oranga Whānau specialist at Visionwest; a role that was established to enable Visionwest to provide a programme to whānau in West Auckland that would address the urgent need to support those living with historic and...