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What is the aim of Taumarunui Whakaarotahi Trust?
To empower people and reduce poverty by working together as community to provide healthy nutrition and develop character.
The principle of Whakaarotahi (unity) is a core part of our ethos. We seek to work in with other community groups and provide integrated solutions to local problems. |
The Concept
Growing community gardens where people turn up at a set time and assist with the garden & receive some garden produce. For those that make a regular commitment and contribution to the garden (eg 1hr 2X a week) they are rewarded each week with a meat koha donated by local farmers, hunters, businesses. This is intended to help encourage volunteerism and develop good work habits and character.
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Core Principles
Empowerment
Naku te rourou, Nau te rourou
ka ora ai te iwi. With your food basket and my food basket the people will thrive. |
Develop Character
“Men become good builders as a result of building well and bad ones as a result of building badly. Otherwise there would be no need of anyone to teach them: they would all be born good or bad. Now this holds good also of the virtues. It is the way we behave in dealings with other people that makes us just or unjust, and the way that we behave in the face of danger, accustoming ourselves to be timid or confident, that makes us brave or cowardly…So it is a matter of no little importance what sort of habits we form from the earliest age- it makes a vast difference, or rather all the difference in the world.”
– Aristotle |
Whakaarotahi
Unity - to do, think, move as one.
“Na, ano te pai, ano te ahuareka o te nohonga o nga teina, o nga tuakana i runga i te whakaaro kotahi” Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for people to dwell together in unity! |
Fostering an Entrepreneurial Spirit
This year we are aiming to begin setting up a range of complimentary operations (eg. firewood, flowers, livestock, aquaculture) on the remainder of the land which is not currently used for gardening. Expanding our operations in this way is intended to help us provide employment, develop a broad skill set and foster an entrepreneurial spirit. Part of this vision includes creating a community farm that sits alongside the garden and runs a few livestock. The livestock would compliment the community garden by providing additional sources of food (eggs, meat) and the livestock manure can be utilised to help fertilise the soil in the community garden. Using some of the land to raise livestock enables us to accept donations of store stock from farmers and helps ensure a regular accessible source of meat to reward our volunteers throughout the year.
This year we are aiming to begin setting up a range of complimentary operations (eg. firewood, flowers, livestock, aquaculture) on the remainder of the land which is not currently used for gardening. Expanding our operations in this way is intended to help us provide employment, develop a broad skill set and foster an entrepreneurial spirit. Part of this vision includes creating a community farm that sits alongside the garden and runs a few livestock. The livestock would compliment the community garden by providing additional sources of food (eggs, meat) and the livestock manure can be utilised to help fertilise the soil in the community garden. Using some of the land to raise livestock enables us to accept donations of store stock from farmers and helps ensure a regular accessible source of meat to reward our volunteers throughout the year.
About Us
Taumarunui Whakaarotahi Trust was established in July 2020 and is managed by a Board. The Trust is a registered charity CC58293. Below is an interview about our work and aims for the future. Many thanks to Zoha from @everyoneisunique who did a great job in putting the interview together. For regular updates check out our facebook page or instagram @taumarunuiwhakaarotahi.
