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• Kāinga Ora and Spotless celebrate biggest ever cohort of young Māngere cadets

  Seventeen-year-old sisters Tarial, Salote and Aliitasi Seuteni were busier than usual during the term one school holidays; they spent them getting up early and learning how to wire in lights and install ovens. The sisters were among 35 youth, including five young women, recognised at a recent awards ceremony for their involvement in the Māngere Development

• New home, new outlook on life

  Cece felt like she’d struck it lucky when she walked into her new Kāinga Ora home in Christchurch after living in emergency housing. . Until recently, she was a child and youth worker specialising in arts and crafts. Just a few days after moving into her new home, Cece held an impromptu arts

• Rangatahi renovations build connection and career pathways

  Four homes arrived on trucks, but that’s just where the journey began for 75 teenage tradies in training. Rangatahi tell us why they wanted to restore a relocated Kāinga Ora home. Training – a youth training provider and partner through our Construction Plus programme – that he found these opportunities. George “Ama just made me feel like

• Supporting youth to earn while they learn

  At Kāinga Ora we’re using the scale of construction at our Northcote Development to provide employment for young people, and it’s something we’re really proud of. employment. Their focus includes the development of life and work competency skills for youth in the infrastructure industry. “Ama Civil, part of the Ama Training

• Sights set on plumbing apprenticeship for students

  Two Year 12 students from Auckland Seventh Day Adventist School, Maio and Jojo, have spent the school holidays on the road with Ubend Plumbing as cadets, taking part in the Kāinga Ora Spotless cadetship programme. solving. "I really enjoyed using my hands and head to solve problems, and learning that every house has a water main that needs to be off before starting any jobs

• Cadetship paving way for young women in construction

  It’s not often you find high school students willing to give up their school holidays to do work experience, but for Sisilia, a young woman from Mangere, the decision was easy. joint initiative between Kāinga Ora and maintenance partner Spotless (a Downer company), aims to give Mangere youth exposure to different vocations and careers

• Molley Green Reserve: ‘a place we call home’ reopens

  It’ll help enable up to 1,200 new homes in Auckland’s Roskill Development and is “hugely important” to the community that’s already here. Join Leah and Tessa for a tour of the newly-reopened Molley Green Reserve. local youth activities, share a connection with Molley Green Reserve. “A lot of our youth work early on started off at this park,” says Salvation Army Youth Worker

• Special community award for tenant Malcom Rundle

  Members of the Mount Roskill community and Kāinga Ora Community Team nominated Malcolm Rundle for a ‘Puketāpapa Community Volunteer Award’ for all his mahi in the community over a number of years. Board, Puketāpapa Youth Foundation and Community agreed with Malcolm to be formally presented with his award at a community celebration this year. We asked Malcolm

• Māngere Community Enviro Hub: ‘From picking up rubbish, to planting out trees, to feeding the people’

  Mangere community groups have taken a site provided by Kāinga Ora and grown it into a space to connect and protect their environment. ,” Rata says. “It’s really important, our collaboration, it’s really what brings the community together and it’s what connects us.” JP Puleitu, Advisor – Youth

• Locals lap up Stone Soup event

  A local Whanganui community event with close ties to Kāinga Ora has been connecting the community for more than 12 years. Tenancy Manager, Kirsty, who pitched it to Te Ora Hou (external link) , a national network of faith-based Maori youth and community development organisations