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From the outside, the Training Café looks like any
other café. Step inside though and the feeling is
something special.
The Training Café on the main street of Taumarunui
is about more than good food and coffee. It’s about
equipping local young adults and at risk youth with
the life and work-ready skills they need to forge a
productive path for themselves in the world.
It’s also the fruit of years of hard work by Taumarunui
Christian Education Trust. The Trust owns and manages
the café, which provides on-the-job training for up to
six otherwise unemployed young people at a time.
Taumarunui
Matching an assistance dog with a person, usually a child,
is an exact process. The dog’s temperament and the
person’s needs must coincide for the match to be effective.
Assistance Dogs NZ Trust breeds, raises, trains and finds
homes for assistance dogs, whose job is to help people
with disabilities. Ninety per cent of the Trust’s customers
are children, often with multiple disabilities that prevent
them enjoying the same quality of life and daily activities
as other children.
Assistance dogs provide companionship, guidance,
safety and medical alert functions for the people they
belong to, functions that are often life-changing for the
families involved.
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Art and taonga are important symbols of who we are and
where we come from. They form part of the rich culture
and artistic heritage of our region. To help ensure that art
and taonga remain here, the Trust has been collecting
pieces since 1999.
When the Trust reviewed this work recently, we
recognised the skills and expertise of Waikato Museum
in collecting art and taonga. We decided that it made
more sense to support the Museum by gifting the Trust
Waikato Collection and supporting them to add to it.
The Collection, valued at $1.92 million, and comprising
over 260 pieces, was gifted to the Hamilton City Council
for Waikato Museum in 2015.
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