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Aorere Spring Newsletter 2022

Aorere Spring Newsletter 2022

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Making our Aorere streets safer

As part of the Mangere Development work in Aorere, we’ll be improving our streets, helping make our neighbourhood safer for all of us.

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New temporary one-way traffic system will improve safety and keep locals moving in Aorere

New temporary one-way traffic system will improve safety and keep locals moving in Aorere

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New homes from one of NZ’s oldest building companies

Fletcher Living is building 27 homes in Bader Drive, ranging from one to four bedrooms.

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Hands-on learning with Construction Plus - Mahi Ora

Construction Plus – Mahi Ora Work Experience Programme is an innovative Kāinga Ora school holiday programme. It offers Auckland high school students opportunities to gain valuable (paid) work experience on civil engineering sites in their own neighbourhoods. The programme is a Kāinga Ora initiative, run through the Piritahi alliance.

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Meet Kathleen

Meet Kathleen

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Local hero - helping the helpers

Mangere is chocka with humble people quietly helping others who need it. This issue’s Local Hero is Toni Helleur, of I AM Māngere, an awesome organisation that helps the helpers, boosting their impact in the community.

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Meet Vera

Vera Wipani (Ngati Kahu, Ngati Paoa) is originally from Taipa in the Far North, but as a young girl she would come and spend school holidays with her grandmother who lived in Viscount Street in Mangere.

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Deconstructed state homes get a second life in Tonga

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Aorere Progress Update Winter 2022

Aorere Progress Update Winter 2022

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Home Kai

When Kay Storrie first moved to Mangere there was “nothing but pigs, sheep, cows and paddocks.” Luckily she found a group of young mums who shared what little they had and bonded over one of the few treats available to them – a homemade fruit cake.

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The Little Creek that Could

For an unassuming little creek in the middle of suburbia, Te Ara-rata Creek has had more than its fair share of attention recently. Changing from a sad, rubbish-filled drain over recent years into a much cleaner stream edged with native plantings was one thing, but after an endangered native fish as well as inanga (whitebait) were found in it, the stream hit the headlines as an example of what can be achieved when a community decides to make a difference.

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