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Wednesday <strong>October</strong> <strong>14</strong> <strong>2020</strong><br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
BAY HARBOUR<br />
PAGE 3<br />
News<br />
Boost for small businesses<br />
• By Avneesh Vincent<br />
CHRISTCHURCH’S first<br />
Learning Exchange platform<br />
was launched last week by<br />
Sumner <strong>Bay</strong>s Union Trust.<br />
The online project will help<br />
connect businesses with the<br />
community.<br />
“It’s a web-based platform<br />
which will also give the small<br />
businesses an opportunity to<br />
give workshops and promote<br />
their products and services<br />
through our platform,” said<br />
Learning Exchange co-ordinator<br />
Eve Wingerath.<br />
She said it would help people<br />
could reach out and learn different<br />
skills from other people in<br />
the community.<br />
The platform was supposed to<br />
be released in January but was<br />
delayed due to Covid-19. Since<br />
the lockdown, a lot of small<br />
businesses had suffered both<br />
financially and emotionally. It<br />
also would help people to come<br />
out of their isolation and feel<br />
involved in a learning process.<br />
About 50 people have volunteered<br />
to teach their skills<br />
through workshops and more<br />
than 100 people have shown<br />
interest to participate.<br />
The current workshops would<br />
include lessons on sewing, composting,<br />
plant-powered kitchens,<br />
and so forth.<br />
Wingerath said these<br />
courses would take place in<br />
different locations, based on<br />
the organiser’s preference,<br />
and would be limited to 12<br />
people. The restrictions around<br />
attendance were due to the<br />
concerns of the venue capacity<br />
and Covid-19 limitations.<br />
The trust had worked with<br />
Bridge2Rocks Timebank so that<br />
people could pay with time.<br />
“You will get one credit per<br />
hour of teaching and you could<br />
use that credit to pay for some<br />
other course you want to learn.<br />
It’s a commerce of time,” said<br />
Wingerath.<br />
About $12,000 was invested<br />
in the process of launching the<br />
platform which included costs of<br />
creation of a website, acquiring<br />
SKILLS: Eddie<br />
Hayes and Eve<br />
Wingerath are<br />
working to make<br />
the Learning<br />
Exchange webbased<br />
platform a<br />
success.<br />
teaching resources, databases,<br />
and so forth.<br />
She said the Learning Exchange<br />
at present covered the<br />
communities of Sumner, Redcliffs,<br />
Heathcote, Mt Pleasant,<br />
and Woolston.<br />
“Other communities could<br />
also approach and share what<br />
they want to do with their ideas,<br />
however that is something for<br />
later,” Wingerath said.<br />
Sumner<br />
teen gets<br />
recognition<br />
• From page 1<br />
Claudia was one of three New<br />
Zealand students who won<br />
awards in the litter less campaign<br />
category, with entries related to<br />
the topic of litter and waste.<br />
Her photo, which was placed<br />
in the photography 15-18 years<br />
category, features her younger<br />
sister, Sienna, collecting waste on<br />
Sumner beach.<br />
The “huge” sunrise<br />
represented the start of a new<br />
day and symbolised the start of<br />
something new, or change.<br />
“You can clearly see her silhouette<br />
where she is eagerly dragging<br />
the trash bin in order to make a<br />
change. Small acts matter,’’ she<br />
said.<br />
“She’s a surfer from Sumner<br />
who is protecting what she cares<br />
about and ultimately fixing<br />
something she didn’t cause.”<br />
Sustainability was something<br />
the student held close to her heart<br />
as it determined the future of her<br />
generation and beyond.<br />
“I am proud of my Maori<br />
heritage and I wanted this<br />
photo to capture the powerful<br />
essence of our land and water<br />
as taonga (treasures), and our<br />
spiritual connection to our land,<br />
Papatuanuku,” she said.<br />
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