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  • Introducing our new MATES Team for 2021

    Introducing our new MATES Team for 2021

    This year MATES has a whole new team ready and keen to start work for 2021. The new team are all experienced MATES mentors and are passionate about helping release the potential in young people through mentoring... Read more

  • Unlocking potential – from Mentee to Masters Degree

    Unlocking potential – from Mentee to Masters Degree

    Kuru Kae was the first member of his extended family to study at university.  He believes the support he received from his MATES mentor helped him get on the pathway towards achieving his goals - a Masters in Criminology.... Read more

  • Mentoring Builds Confidence in “Shy Kids”

    Mentoring Builds Confidence in “Shy Kids”

    The mentoring connection is powerful, builds confidence and improves the students’ sense of wellbeing. A great example of the power of the mentoring relationship to release untapped potential is a shy young girl from Avondale Intermediate... Read more

  • Is Mentoring for You?

    Is Mentoring for You?

    MATES needs to find a new batch of eager Uni students, willing to give back to the community through mentoring. Our Programme Manager, Sonya Masoe, gives us the low-down on what's involved with becoming a MATES mentor… Read more

  • Introducing our new MATES Team for 2021
  • Unlocking potential – from Mentee to Masters Degree
  • Mentoring Builds Confidence in “Shy Kids”
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MATES Stories

Introducing our new MATES Team for 2021

Introducing our new MATES Team for 2021

This year MATES has a whole new team ready and keen to start work for 2021. The new team are all experienced MATES mentors and are passionate about helping release the potential in young people through mentoring... Read more

Posted to: MATES Stories

Published: 7th March, 2021

Unlocking potential – from Mentee to Masters Degree

Unlocking potential – from Mentee to Masters Degree

Kuru Kae was the first member of his extended family to study at university.  He believes the support he received from his MATES mentor helped him get on the pathway towards achieving his goals - a Masters in Criminology.... Read more

Posted to: MATES Stories

Published: 24th February, 2021

Updated: 25th February, 2021

Mentoring Builds Confidence in “Shy Kids”

Mentoring Builds Confidence in “Shy Kids”

The mentoring connection is powerful, builds confidence and improves the students’ sense of wellbeing. A great example of the power of the mentoring relationship to release untapped potential is a shy young girl from Avondale Intermediate... Read more

Posted to: MATES Stories

Published: 4th February, 2021

Updated: 11th February, 2021

Is Mentoring for You?

Is Mentoring for You?

MATES needs to find a new batch of eager Uni students, willing to give back to the community through mentoring. Our Programme Manager, Sonya Masoe, gives us the low-down on what's involved with becoming a MATES mentor… Read more

Posted to: MATES Stories

Published: 24th January, 2021

Updated: 10th February, 2021

Uni For a Day 2020: Inspiring Young Pasifika Students

Uni For a Day 2020: Inspiring Young Pasifika Students

"Uni for a Day" is legendary, This much-anticipated outing is held each year to give Year 8 students something to aim for as they prepare to begin High School. After being cancelled twice due to Covid, it was finally held in October 2020... Read more

Posted to: MATES Stories

Published: 21st December, 2020

MATES Senior: We Made it Through 2020

MATES Senior: We Made it Through 2020

MATES had a challenging start to a year that will go down in history, but the team finished the year in style with an epic Senior Prizegiving and celebration held in rooms at Eden Park... Read more

Posted to: MATES Stories

Published: 14th December, 2020

Updated: 17th December, 2020

Teenagers Studying during Holidays?

Teenagers Studying during Holidays?

During the last school holidays, MATES ran a Study Fono with a focus on mentoring and tutoring senior students who have been doubly disadvantaged by the first Covid lockdown and loss of nearly a term of schooling... Read more

Posted to: MATES Stories

Published: 17th August, 2020

Updated: 17th November, 2020

Inside MATES Junior – More than Fun and Games

Inside MATES Junior – More than Fun and Games

An inside look at a MATES Junior study group, where the goal is building relationships - from which confidence and positivity begin to flow out into other areas of life, including the student’s learning... Read more

Posted to: MATES Stories

Published: 30th July, 2020

Updated: 17th November, 2020

Giving Back through Mentoring

Giving Back through Mentoring

Rahui was a MATES mentee in her final year at school... now in her fourth year of a six-year conjoint degree, she decided to give back to her community and become a MATES mentor herself. Here is Rahui's journey in mentoring... Read more

Posted to: MATES Stories

Published: 1st June, 2020

Updated: 17th November, 2020

From Mentee to Mentor

From Mentee to Mentor

Meteri's story with MATES began as a mentee in 2015 at Aorere College, a student with potential who needed help with her studies. Five years later and a Law student at Uni, she has come full circle and has become a MATES mentor... Read more

Posted to: MATES Stories

Published: 1st June, 2020

Updated: 17th November, 2020

“We are speaking. Are you listening?”

“We are speaking. Are you listening?”

May 9-17 is Youth Week 2020 and the theme is: "We are speaking. Are you listening?”. We have asked our MATES team to tell us about the impact of Covid-19 on their lives, on their whanau and communities, and to share their hopes for a post-Covid New Zealand... Read more

Posted to: MATES Stories

Published: 7th May, 2020

Updated: 17th November, 2020

Edmond's Story - MATES Junior

Edmond's Story - MATES Junior

Edmond and his mentor Peter have an amazing connection. Our MATES Junior coordinator shares feedback on their journey from 2018... Read more

Posted to: MATES Stories

Published: 13th February, 2020

Updated: 23rd June, 2020

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    Marissa's Story: "HIPPY gave me confidence"

    Marissa was 18 when she had her first baby. Shy and lacking confidence, she thought her working life was over. Until she started her son on the HIPPY programme and her confidence began to grow...

  • Garden Vision: ‘Growing for Good’ at ELC

    Garden Vision: ‘Growing for Good’ at ELC

    Papakura Early Learning Centre’s Team Leader has a vision for transforming the centre's unused outdoor spaces into an edible garden, with a worm farm, composting and recycling system to teach the children sustainability...

  • Creating Connections in Kaikohe - with DIY Deodorant

    Creating Connections in Kaikohe - with DIY Deodorant

    Group meetings – or ‘whānau hui’ – are an important part of HIPPY, helping build connections and combat isolation. Kaikohe Coordinator, Emily Rogers, recently took her HIPPY whānau to a local drop-in centre/pregnancy hub and did a very cool enrichment activity making DIY deodorant...

  • Our Learning Plan

    Our Early Learning Centre offers a curriculum based on Te Whariki. Each child is welcomed for who they are. Our staff are skilful at settling and working alongside children, following their play ideas. Whānau experience respectful relationships with kind and caring teachers who value their children.

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    HIPPY Programme

    HIPPY is a home-based Early Learning programme that helps parents from disadvantaged communities lay the foundation for their children’s success in school and later life...

  • Making Ice Cream, Shaping Lives

    Making Ice Cream, Shaping Lives

    Through play children solve problems, test out ideas and explore their imaginations. HIPPY helps parents create a fun learning environment at home where creativity is unleashed, bodies get moving and children develop a life-long love of learning...

  • Garden Vision: ‘Growing for Good’ at ELC

    Garden Vision: ‘Growing for Good’ at ELC

    Papakura Early Learning Centre’s Team Leader has a vision for transforming the centre's unused outdoor spaces into an edible garden, with a worm farm, composting and recycling system to teach the children sustainability...

  • Family Service Centres

    Family Service Centres

    Our Family Service Centres assist the community with housing, food, health care, employment support and wellbeing services as well as offering early learning services, parenting programmes, playgroups, social workers in schools, counselling and more...

  • Auckland is at Level 3 again

    Auckland is at Level 3 again

    The Government has just announced our third Covid lockdown here in Auckland - initially for three days. We will keep the website updated, along with our Facebook pages. Our Auckland sites are closed but our staff are working from home to continue to support our families and programmes.

  • Making a Difference: Girl With Cake Project

    Making a Difference: Girl With Cake Project

    Maiyah, a former "HIPPY child", is an 8-year-old girl from Hornby in Christchurch. Since she was five years old, Maiyah has been baking and selling cupcakes to raise money to help the homeless in her city. She’s just a young girl, but she’s making a huge difference...

  • MATES Programme

    MATES Programme

    MATES Mentoring and Tutoring programme addresses the underachievement in education of disadvantaged youth in New Zealand, intervening at key transition points to create pathways for success...

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  • We Are Open (again) at Level 2

    We Are Open (again) at Level 2

    The Government has announced that Auckland is moving to Alert Level 2 from 6am Sunday. This means that from Monday 8 March our office, Takanini Family Service Centre, Papakura Family Service Centre and Papakura Early Learning Centre will be open as normal, with Level 2 protocols in place.

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