About TMKR
Te Manu Ka Rewa (TMKR) is a community-initiated scheme that seeks to build community-connectedness and celebrate the successes of Clendon Park and the wider community of Manurewa (within the Manukau Region).
TMKR is one of several projects in the Auckland region currently being delivered under the Department of Internal Affairs Community Development Scheme (CDS). The DIA funding has enabled TMKR to appoint two Community Development Workers to deliver the project’s intended outcomes. Auckland Communities Foundation provides the operational framework to host these positions.
TMKR is very much community-led. The project is governed by representatives from a collection of community-based organisations, including:
- Clendon Park Primary School
- Manurewa Marae
- Nga Kaitiaki o Te Whanau Awhina
- Manurewa Marlins
- Te Tai Tonga
- Rangatira Pou & Jadein Henare (Youth Representation)
Vision
The overall whainga (goal) of the project is:
"Working together to rebuild connection in our community and celebrate Clendon Park"
This reconnection and celebration process will empower our families, whanau/hapu to consider appropriate options and decision making processes that will lead to a thriving, well-led Clendon Park community.
It is critical to our vision that rangatahi/rangatira apopo/taiohi (youth) within the Manurewa and Clendon Park community have nga kowhiringa (opportunities) to identify who they are and where they want to be in the future; and to generate their own solutions.
Core Aims
In accordance with the above vision/ kaupapa, TMKR’s core objectives are:
- Families, whanau/hapu of our Clendon Park Community are well tuhonohonotanga (connected) and we celebrate our strengths, successes and cultures.
- Our Clendon Park Community, families, whanau/hapu are engaged and active in the decisions that affect them and have the infrastructure that enables them to effectively participate in leading a strong sustainable future.
- Rangatahi/Taiohi/Rangatira apopo (youth) have a voice within our community and are supported to develop their own solutions for positive development.
These objective can be translated into 6 core aims:
1. Fostering youth identity, confidence and leadership and supporting talent and potential
2. Building capacity for youth-directed and youth-led events and activities
3. Engaging ‘at-risk’ youth – prevention not treatment
4. Encouraging whanau involvement and inter-generational connectedness
5. Supporting youth transitions – pathways through education and into jobs or training
6. Connecting what is out there – enabling current projects to achieve more
Informing Philanthropy
The Te Manu Ka Rewa project is important to the operations of Auckland Communities Foundation. The project represents a real opportunity to connect with our community and collaborate with other organisations in the sector in order that we can see what best practice looks like to better inform our future giving.
Te Manu Ka Rewa News and Progress
Follow the progress of Te Manu Ka Rewa through the project's Twitter or Facebook pages
Contact
For more information about TMKR, please contact the Community Development Workers:
Kat Stanier - 09 277 8832 / 021 027 49935 / k.stanier "at" aucklandcf.org.nz
Damon Heke - 09 277 8833 / 021 506186 / d.heke "at" aucklandcf.org.nz