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6<br />
Māngere<br />
Maker’s Day<br />
a Success<br />
On 23 July, the Auckland<br />
Regional Migrant Services<br />
(ARMS), the Roots Creative<br />
Entrepreneurs and the<br />
Makerhood team ran<br />
the first ever repair and<br />
upcycling workshop for<br />
the Māngere community.<br />
The event aims to bring<br />
the community and local<br />
volunteers together to fix<br />
broken household items<br />
and learn new skills.<br />
The Māngere Maker’s Day<br />
demonstrates how migrant<br />
and refugee communities<br />
in South Auckland can<br />
minimise their waste<br />
through upcycling and<br />
learning repair skills.<br />
“We wanted to nurture<br />
creativity and a ‘fix-it’<br />
attitude within the Māngere<br />
community but to also<br />
create a platform to engage<br />
migrants and refugees<br />
in waste minimisation,”<br />
says Bex Rillstone,<br />
organiser of the event.<br />
The Metro Hall was<br />
transformed into a repair<br />
and recycling haven for<br />
the day. Volunteers fixed<br />
laptops, mended clothes,<br />
upcycled old coffee tables<br />
and repaired household<br />
appliances. It showcased<br />
the work of local social<br />
enterprises like ‘Hope ‘n’<br />
Help’ who turn waste into<br />
fashion and help migrants<br />
and refugees by offering<br />
work experience and<br />
teaching valuable skills.<br />
The Māngere East Family<br />
Services also set-up a<br />
recycling learning station<br />
to educate kids on the<br />
value of recycling waste.<br />
The rain didn’t hamper the<br />
spirit of the community.<br />
Outside the hall, a sausage<br />
sizzle kept everyone<br />
energised, while the Roots<br />
Creative Entrepreneurs<br />
created furniture from used<br />
wooden pallets and Mr. T<br />
of Triple Teez repaired<br />
broken bikes collected<br />
from the Community<br />
Recycling Network, which<br />
were then donated back<br />
to the community.<br />
“We realise that ‘only the<br />
hood can change the<br />
hood’ and by collaborating<br />
on events like this, we<br />
unleash the creativity of<br />
south Aucklanders,” says<br />
John Belford of the Roots<br />
Creative Entrepreneurs.<br />
#Makerhood is supported<br />
by The Southern Initiative<br />
of the Auckland Council<br />
to help South Aucklanders<br />
grow a maker mindset –<br />
to tinker, to fix, to create.<br />
The next Makerhood will<br />
be in Otara in <strong>August</strong>.<br />
For more info, visit<br />
the Makerhood on<br />
Facebook or at www.<br />
makerhood.co.nz
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