Meet the 2020 ProCare Charitable Foundation Recipients
Everybody Eats Charitable Trust
Project overview: To pilot a second permanent site in the Auckland region and establish a pop up restaurant in South Auckland
To support the wider Auckland region, Funding will go towards the delivery of services for an ‘Everybody Eats’ second Auckland permanent site in either West Auckland, Glenn Innes or South Auckland. Everybody Eats is a restaurant where communities come together to provide a three-course, pay-as-you-feel set menu. Each week a different chef takes over the kitchen preparing perfectly good food that would otherwise go to waste and use it to feed people suffering food poverty.
Funding will also be used to establish a pop-up site in South Auckland which will operate for 8-12 weeks as a pilot to determine viability of a more permanent restaurant in this area.
Oke Charity
Project overview: Establish outdoor sustainable gardens in two Auckland schools
Funding will go towards supporting Oke Charity in establishing productive gardens into schools to support the development of kiwi kids. Schools will be provided with raised beds, a greenhouse, composting solutions, garden tools, irrigation, seeds and plants. The gardens will provide pupils with the opportunity to learn life and social skills.
Rainbow Youth Incorporated
Project overview: Salary contribution for staff in the Auckland Care Support Team
To support the greater Auckland region, funding will go towards a salary contribution for the Auckland Care Support Team. This team provides support, information, resources and advocacy for the regions queer, gender diverse, takatāpui and intersex youth and their friends, whānau and community. The organisation provides a wide range of services to young people from support workshops and drop-in centres to attendance at events and online support.
Yellow Brick Road Charity
Project overview: Stepping out for women workshop and support
Funding will provide support for families who have a loved one experiencing mental health challenges. Via an Auckland based workshop, Yellow Brick Road Charity will deliver a positive development programme for women who need support, knowledge, advocacy and empowerment as they or someone they care for journeys towards mental wellbeing.
Auckland City Mission
Project overview: Allocated funding between two projects: Food Security programme and Te Whare Hīnātore
Funding will go to support the ‘Food Security’ programme to provide food parcels to people in communities across Auckland with an emphasis on provision to the Papakura and the Manukau Urban Māori Authority (MUMA) Maraes. The Mission’s food parcels are designed to feed a family or individual for four days to get them through an immediate crisis.
Funding will also support ‘Te Whare Hīnātore’ to deliver services exclusively for women and those who identify as women, experiencing homelessness. This essential service opened in February 2020 to provide a safe haven to house and care for vulnerable women for up to 12 weeks and help them into permanent accommodation.