NAU MAI, HAERE MAI

The Ōtara Kai village is a resident led initiative under The Community Builders NZ Trust with a vision to change community mindsets and behaviours relating to food, health, and well-being.   Our whole model is based around Kai, Connection & Creation weaved through social eco-sustainable practices & culture. ​

OKV PRINCIPALS

• Animate & bring life back into the Ōtara town centre.
• Create a social environment that's safer and more beautiful.
• Maximise positive community impact through collaboration.
• Provide employment training and work experience opportunities.
• Contribute to bringing economic opportunity to our community that struggles at times.
• Promote Maori and Pacific food choices & culture to highlight South Auckland's point of difference.
• Contribute to a food secure Ōtara through the rescue and re-distribution of good kai that would otherwise go to landfill.
• Providing dignified access to quality healthy 'must have' items of food at an affordable price, to enable a health & well-being promoting environment.
• Evolve financially viable, co-operative community enterprises that are sustainable and provide a ​platform for increasing whanau-led and social enterprise development.
• Model and communicate environmentally sustainable practices through a zero waste kaupapa, carbon emission reduction and other environmental initiatives.

PROJECT PARTNERS & SUPPORTERS

We want to say a huge nga mihi to the Auckland Council waste minimisation team who helped us get this project off the ground by funding us $25k to get the donated shipping container from Panuku modified.  This enabled the rest of the support to follow.  

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