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Noa lands national award for leadership

We are so proud of kaimahi Noa who has been named Young Leader of the Year | Te Tohu mō te Kaiārahi Rangatahi o te Tau in the Te Hāpai Hapori | Spirit of Service Awards. Freeland Reserve in January Of course, Noa did make it to the stage where she delivered an eloquent speech attributing her success to the support of her aiga, her

Kerry wants to give back to the community

About 20 years ago, Kāinga Ora customer Kerry started volunteering for the Salvation Army. The organisation had given her great support when she lost her job, so she wanted to give something back. Community Garden in Porirua. And she’s passionate about encouraging others to do the same. Kerry lives with her 17-year-old son and partner in a Kāinga Ora home in

Saving a slice of sustainability

Nick and Loretta have fed their community for years through hard work and green thumbs at a plot on vacant Kāinga Ora land. The Riccarton stalwarts have even previously used the garden as a platform to raise money and plan a fundraiser concert for a young brain surgery patient

Tinna’s whimsical garden filling hearts – and tummies

Everyone needs a sanctuary – a place to retreat to when life gets tough. For Christchurch mum Tinna, her sanctuary is the garden she has lovingly created at her Kāinga Ora home, Bush Cottage. It’s a garden like no other. A labour of love for the last 20 years, it is filled with the unexpected. Toy dinosaurs nestle amongst ferns, there’s a fairy

Self-sown and supreme: How a Greenlane garden grew

Congratulations to our Greenlane customer David, whose paradise of palms, succulents and native plants has earned the top award in this year’s Great Gardens of Kāinga Ora competition. A single tree stood in the yard when David moved into his Kāinga Ora home 25 years ago. “Everywhere else was just grass,” he says. But it didn’t stay that way

Growing kai and communities

Mum of two Sazshia, is now busy raising veggies alongside her children thanks to a partnership between Manawatū Food Action Network, UCOL and Kāinga Ora. planter box, Sazshia made a deal with her children to learn about gardening and grow their own kai. “They wanted a pet, so I made them a deal: if they could grow and

Completed infrastructure works readies Mangere West for new housing

As part of the Kāinga Ora effort to ready some Auckland suburbs for housing development, the first significant parcel of civils and infrastructure works, across two stages, is now complete in part of the Mangere Large-Scale Project – Mangere West. be one of south Auckland’s largest rain garden (external link) on Hall Ave – which is drawing much curiosity from the community. The works included replacing

Tenants ‘feel blessed’ to be living in new Avondale development

A two and a half-year project to create the country’s largest social housing development is complete, with the final 30 homes in the 236-home Avondale development now ready for tenants. the communal gardens and the local lane connecting tenants to the surrounding neighbourhood. Separating the development into five buildings provides a sense of

People collector Anna brings her community together

Anna lives in a Kāinga Ora home in Palmerston North and loves her neighbourhood for its national heritage significance, accessibility and the large reserve nearby that offers many opportunities for the community to connect. organising events in the reserve and establishing a community garden. One of the events Anna looks back on with pride is the open-air cinema she organised in

Mosgiel neighbours two peas in a pod

Ann and Marie are such good friends they finish each other’s sentences. gardening planted the seed for Ann and Marie’s friendship and the pair now regularly venture out together to get things for their gardens. Ann loves seeing her

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