What an Awesome First Week of LEGO Club at Pou Whakaaro! This week our tamariki got busy building, creating, learning, and making new friends at LEGO Club. Our first sessions focused on Whanaungatanga – getting to know each other, welcoming new tamariki, and working together as a team. Through LEGO challenges and group activities, children practised sharing ideas, taking turns, helping others, and building friendships. As the week progressed, tamariki took on some exciting building...

A new support programme for whanau supporting a loved one with mental health or addiction challenges.

We are incredibly proud to be starting our second 20 week round of the CReW 4 U project with 5 new awesome young people. CReW 4 U is a project funded by MSD which supports people with significant barriers to employment to gain essential skills, confidence and knowledge, so they can have the best possible chance to gain future employment. We are mostly creating goods out of rejected pine timber supplied by a mill in Kawerau. This includes kindling, firewood, garden beds, planter boxes,...