Nau mai, Haere mai, Welcome to our site.
This site is dedicated to the telling of stories. We hope you enjoy your visit as you read through some of the stories that are featured.
We are a group of youth volunteers (Vinnies) of different cultures and ethnicities from various Colleges and Tertiary institutions across Auckland who are committed to making a difference through service, community projects and building relationships.
” We Belong” is a social media campaign that comes out of a belief that poverty is caused by separation or the disconnection of people from one another. Our hope is that through the telling of stories we can build a sense of ‘togetherness’ and bring us back to a place where we can all belong.
In today’s Society we hear of the statistics that tell of the isolation, the poverty and marginalistion of people. We hope that by humanizing these statistics we can counter the effect this has on our communities. The hope is, when we connect, it stops being about ‘them’, and it becomes about ‘us’.
We hope you enjoy your visit : )