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PAGE 6 BAY HARBOUR<br />

Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />

Wednesday <strong>October</strong> 7 <strong>2020</strong><br />

ews<br />

‘We planted 3000 trees’<br />

•From page 5<br />

An education fund has also<br />

been set up, a long-term legacy<br />

which will support 108 children<br />

with tertiary education and training.<br />

Al Noor Mosque Imam Gamal<br />

Fouda said the foundation had<br />

played a “crucial” role in helping<br />

the Muslim community recover<br />

from last year’s attacks.<br />

Former city councillor Raf<br />

Manji played a leading role in<br />

the foundation’s response to<br />

the attacks, spearheading its<br />

engagement with the Muslim<br />

community over a three month<br />

period which shaped its distribution<br />

model.<br />

More recently, the foundation<br />

has worked alongside Meridian<br />

energy in moving towards creating<br />

a tui corridor throughout<br />

Christchurch.<br />

A corridor of tui tucker plants,<br />

a tui favourite, will be planted<br />

across Christchurch to encourage<br />

the bird back into the city.<br />

Carter said Meridian Energy<br />

came to the foundation wanting<br />

to contribute to the environmental<br />

aspect of the city, so she came<br />

up with the idea of a tui corridor.<br />

“That was my idea, I pitched it<br />

to<br />

them [Meridian], they went yeah,<br />

we would love to do it so we<br />

planted 3000 trees on city council<br />

MILLERS<br />

GRAND<br />

TREE-MENDOUS: In collaboration with the Christchurch<br />

Foundation and Sustainable Coastlines, Meridian Energy<br />

hosted its first planting day last week at the Christchurch<br />

Adventure Park as it looks to create a Tui corridor through<br />

the city.<br />

land on Friday [last week].”<br />

This is an example of the<br />

foundation’s “project funding”<br />

approach.<br />

The second approach it employs<br />

in facilitating acts of philanthropy<br />

in the city is a strategy Carter<br />

labelled as “pass-through giving.”<br />

“Like the gift to Turanga, we<br />

bring the money in and pass it<br />

straight on to the beneficiary of<br />

the donor’s choice. We have also<br />

done that for other things in the<br />

city like SCAPE [public art] and<br />

the Christchurch Symphony<br />

Orchestra.”<br />

The third approach is endowment<br />

funding. This involves<br />

donors giving capital to the<br />

charity which it then invests and<br />

distributes the profits of to the<br />

donor’s cause of choice.<br />

This multi-faceted approach<br />

from the charity has caught the<br />

eye of Susan Dolton, who will be<br />

studying the charity as part of<br />

a Winston Churchill Memorial<br />

Trust Fellowship grant into the<br />

research of strategies in disaster<br />

grant-making.<br />

Open day at tennis club<br />

THE REDCLIFFS Tennis<br />

Club will hold its annual<br />

open day on Saturday between<br />

1-4pm.<br />

The event will be postponed<br />

• From page 1<br />

He said it took more than a<br />

dozen members and a week to<br />

unload and display the items<br />

which were donations from the<br />

club members and the general<br />

public.<br />

The proceeds of the sale would<br />

to Sunday if the weather is not<br />

suitable.<br />

There will be several<br />

giveaways, prizes, and lolly<br />

scrambles.<br />

VALUE: Some of the items at the Lions club fundraiser.<br />

Items donated from public<br />

go to Christchurch Diabetes,<br />

one of the causes supported by<br />

the Lions Club International<br />

Foundation.<br />

“The unsold items would<br />

most probably be used for next<br />

year’s sale, hopefully,” Godden<br />

said.<br />

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