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19 June 2023

Celebrating Volunteer Week 2023

Pip Pip Hooray Pip first heard about Merge Café while working at the University of Auckland more than a decade ago. Back then, the university held a fundraiser and one…

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23 November 2022

Celebrating 200 years of alleviating hardship across Aotearoa.

Merge Café, born from Methodist Mission Northern, was established after acknowledging the need for change from providing free kai through soup kitchen to a café where street whānau could go…

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23 August 2022

Merge Cafe “has been an absolute lifesaver for me.”

Miriam*, 70 years old, started visiting Lifewise Merge Café a few months ago. She was feeling lost and isolated and needed help to access housing. Although looking for support and…

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15 August 2022

Help works both ways

Supporting others who’re living on the street has been the making of Thomas. It’s helped him build a new life for himself. Thomas calls himself the original Auckland City Street Kid.…

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17 March 2022

Kai Connections for Neighbours Day Aotearoa

From 18 – 27 March, we officially celebrate Aotearoa Neighbours Day 2022! This year's theme is 'Kai Connections: Celebrating Community, Sharing Food'. The kaupapa of Neighbours Day Aotearoa is to…

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7 October 2021

World Homeless Day 2021

10 October is World Homeless Day. Every year, we join this global call to raise awareness of homelessness and - like this year's theme - "take stock" of our response…

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Merge Cafe Merge Community

12 July 2021

Kia ora Marcus!

Marcus is one of our lovely volunteers at Lifewise Merge Cafe. Here he talks about what he enjoys most about helping out in the kitchen. He's such a gentle, soft-spoken…

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23 May 2021

We’re moving!

From the week of 17 May onwards, some Lifewise services along with Airedale Property Trust and Methodist Mission Northern will move to 124 Vincent Street, Auckland 1010 🏢 All our…

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20 April 2021

Good news, thank you’s and much more!

Check out our latest newsletter to see the life-changing impacts that Lifewise supporters are delivering every day.

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Merge Cafe

5 March 2021

“If Merge Café shut down, everyone would be back on the streets.”

Please donate by 31 March to DOUBLE your donation and keep this life-changing service running for people who’ve fallen on hard times.

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Postal address: PO Box 5104, Victoria Street West, AUCKLAND 1142
Email: lifewise@lifewise.org.nz / Phone: 09 302 5390
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