Reconnecting residents 

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meet our neighbours

how enterprise works? 

HUIA lEADERS 

Huia Leaders enable the building of connections and trust amongst residents. They include those who are already leading the care and connections with the residents. They love gathering people, connecting with them, and either encouraging those that can help into the community and or/sign posting those that need help. Huia Leaders have a heart for people and gathering and connecting people but also have good boundaries, so they do not get taken advantage. of (e.g., by spending too much time in their role and/or with demanding residents). We anticipate Huia Leaders investing up to 2 hours per week in their role. They respect the views of others, regardless of race, age, gender, or orientation. They have an intense desire to serve their community, particularly in times of need, with a willingness to share their knowledge and experiences with other Huia Leaders. At our cost we provide training and ongoing support to enable Huia Leaders to operate as an inclusive and open team, sharing cross cultural experiences.  If you want to know more click here​ for a job description. If you interested in applying, please click
​ here to apply for the position. You will need to join the Enterprise by proving some information and then you can apply to be a Huia Leader. 

OUR WELLBEING voice ​

In October we will undertake our next wellbeing survey. We will use this and the previous 2 wellbeing surveys to inform community conversations , followed by some idea generation for us to implement in 2022 and some ideas for other decision makers to consider. Here are the results of our mid 2020 survey with the corresponding objectives and solutions developed with residents.

our progress so far 

Number of Huia Leaders 0 of 100
​Number of NRG members 12

disaster resiliEnce

For disaster resilience we will be identifying all those who can respond in a disaster to meet the known needs of residents covering food, water, medical, security, mobility, sanitation, welfare, communications and animal welfare. This will all be recorded in the system so those leading the response have all the information they need. We can then assess whether we, Newlands, have the capability to not only look after ourselves for 2 for 4 weeks in the event of a serious Wellington wide disaster but also provide a transition hub for people walking from Wellington heading north to their home.
WREMO have some training programmes which we will access including central hub training as to how we can quickly prioritize and respond to the needs of residents in the event of a disaster including the consideration of the cultural context.
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