What is your favourite thing about Christmas? I love the build up towards Christmas. The anticipation and the buying or making presents for loved ones. For me it’s about making memories. Do you have a family…
“I still have my Santa bag.” Joey was just 14 years old when she found out she was pregnant. She was accepted to the Taonga Teen Parent Unit in South Auckland not long before her…
“I’m excited about Christmas with my kids.” Young mother Reneka and her two toddlers have been living at Grainger Grove for three months. “My partner was abusing and cheating on me”, she says. Reneka also…
“She’ll have her Santa bag forever.” Amanda is a young mum who arrived at Merivale (a residential programme for mothers and their children run by Iosis) when her daughter, Oceania, was just two weeks old….
“Her Santa bag is so special” 21-year old Chenoa grew up in a home with a lovely and supportive mother and grandparents, but her father was abusive. Chenoa remembers a happy childhood: however she moved…
The Joy of Making…. with Tanja Tanja is one of our talented volunteer sewers, who has made Santa bags this year. We asked her about her love of sewing and what inspired her to help…
