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Stickered Home Visitation
In response to the recent weather events, Visionwest has been proactive in offering support to those affected.
Over the past three Fridays, our chaplain, Simon, members of the Visionwest Board, and GEBC members have been visiting flood affected whānau whose homes have been white or yellow-stickered (Red-stickered homes have not been visited as they are usually empty).
The object of the visits is to ensure those affected know about the support that is available to them.
The team carries food parcels in their cars and give these to whānau who need on. A call-back for a few days later is offered to check on further support needs. When a need is identified there and then, the whānau is referred through to the flood response team at Visionwest for a one-on-one response.
So far, 75 households have been visited and significant conversations have been had with over half of the houses where someone is home.
Well done, Simon and team. It’s great to know that people who might otherwise miss out are hearing about the support we have available. Visits will continue every Friday for as long as they are beneficial to whānau.
If you or someone you know needs support following the floods, including counselling or trauma-care support, phone our free Flood Support Line – 0800 990 026.
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Great work. There are certainly a lot of people out there who need support at this time!
Awesome work to you all, thank you's so much bless kotou katoatoa
ONLY A WEEK TO GO
If you haven’t downloaded the ONE GOOD KIWI app and helped our My Whare project yet, you’ve got one more week.
Take five minutes to do something positive to help the 20,000+ thousand young people who are experiencing homelessness in Aotearoa New Zealand today?
Download the ONE GOOD KIWI App and you can help us get a share of $100,000 – we’ll use it to address youth homelessness through our My Whare programme which puts young people into a tiny home with proactive mentoring support.
Apple users can download the free app here onegoodkiwi.nz/ios
Android users can download the free app here onegoodkiwi.nz/android
Or you can support us online at www.onegoodkiwi.nz
You only get a limited number of tokens to toss our way so please share this with your friends and whānau.
Thanks to Vodafone New Zealand and everyone who has already supported us.
#visionwest #OneGoodKiwi
It's on again tomorrow (Wednesday).
While you wait for your laundry to be taken care of, you can go to Te Kapu, our free community lunch - starts at 12:00.
#visionwest #orangesky
Kendra is talking about My Whare, a Visionwest project aimed at addressing the issue of youth homelessness in Aotearoa New Zealand.
You can help too – go to www.onegoodkiwi; download the free app; find the My Whare video; and flick us your tokens.
It’s free and only takes a few minutes.
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Woohoo
Way to go David!
David, who is the GM of our Business Support department, spent his latest holiday doing something a little different – he cycled from Cape Reinga to Bluff as part of the 2023 Tour Aotearoa bike challenge. That 3,000km of bike riding, mostly off-road on cycle trails and tracks.
As part of his adventure, he experienced all types of weather, had his bicycle stolen ☹, and raised over $1,000 for the Visionwest Flood Support Appeal.
Well done, David! Awesome effort.
You can read David’s daily cycling blog at visionwest-fundraise.raisely.com/david-diprose.
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That’s an incredible achievement David
Wow! That's awesome!
Wowsas that's super cool
Good on you mate! Shame on those aholes who stole your bike!
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