One year of Have a Hart Auckland
It’s a bit long (12 months of group photos!) but it’s also amazing
It is hard to believe it has been a year. 12 months of food sorting, clothes sorting, emergency parcel creation, lunches and picnics and laughs and hugs and puns. Don’t forget all the puns.
The Auckland City Mission has been good to us. We have learnt about homelessness, and the very real need that faces the most vulnerable in Auckland. It is a wide reaching organisation that does it’s best to provide care and support to those that have no where else to turn.
In our year, 30 individual volunteers have directly helped 322 families and 110 individuals by creating food parcels that will help them through 3-4 days while they get back on their feet. We have indirectly helped by sorting through 15,000kgs of donated cans and dried foods, sorting and bagging 15 cubic metres of clothing, and generally helping out with cleaning/moving furniture/unloading trucks.
Numbers are great, but the real benefit comes from the lives we have helped and the friendships we have formed. The people will always be the most important thing about Have a Hart. I love every single member of this community with all my heart, and I am so proud of them. I have seen so much personal growth happening, and every person gaining something from this experience. Watching two members start their own groups in Christchurch and Dunedin was a proud moment. I feel proud every time I see a new Have a Hart group pop up somewhere else in the world, and seeing my fellow city captains running amazing events in their own communities.
Special shout out to ever4lar for being an amazing coordinator and keeping us all in line and in contact. We couldn’t do this without your support.
And mydrunkkitchen. You bought us all together and helped shape this community. You have attracted the most wonderful, giving, loving people and for that I am grateful. Keep being you, and know that we have your back.
Thank you for a wonderful year Have a Hart-ers! Here’s to an even greater one going forward!
October 2014
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December 2014 (international Have a Hart Day)
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SQUAD GOALZ!
