Cooking up connections at Ringa Wera
Ringa Wera literally translates as 'hot hands', describing both the speed people work at and the heat from the fire and ovens. The name was gifted to us by one…
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180
Children
Every day, we have up to 180 children in our Early Childhood Education Centres.
500
Older people
On any given day, we have 120 carers giving in-home support to 500 older people.
53
Street whānau
In 2020, over the first COVID-19 lockdown period, we supported 53 street whānau into emergency housing through Lifewise Merge Community.
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