FEBRUARY

What is one thing you want to change this year?

Mikaara

Mikaara

Mikaara | Māngere Bridge - “It’s very difficult to talk to people openly about it, of having tasted death and seen which we call Hine-nui-te-Pō, the maiden of the night.”
Lynnette

Lynnette

Lynnette | Māngere Bridge - "I actually believe that one day I’ll be walking up Māngere Mountain again.”
Arron

Arron

Arron | Kelston - “That synthetic stuff, that’s got to go... It’s making people sick and I’m sick of it.”
Samah

Samah

Samah | Rānui - “One thing I really wanted to change was to actually just start, and see where it takes me.”
John

John

John | Henderson - “I need to try and make a change and try to be a good example”
Christian

Christian

Christian | Māngere Bridge - "I think that as you grow up you should always hold family close to your heart.”
Matthew

Matthew

Matthew | Māngere Bridge - "I’ve had that passion for a little while, but I’ve always kind of shied off to do it and not pursuing it.”
Kate

Kate

Kate | Devonport - "Don’t be afraid to say no. It does feel like you’re shutting down options at the time, but I think now that it’s made, I always knew that my gut choice was to follow my uni stuff”

JANUARY

When was the last time you felt thankful or grateful?

Velouschka

Velouschka

Velouschka | Manurewa - "My kids. I’m a stay home mum, look after my kids. I’m only 21, I’ve got two kids, their fathers are not here to help me, so I’m doing it on my own."
Tali

Tali

Tali | Northcote - "The impact woke me up, and yeah that was pretty bad, and luckily the woman I hit, her kids weren’t in the back seat, because she had car seats and stuff."
Robert

Robert

Rob | Whenuapai - "I’m thankful that if I was ever going to be out of work, or anything like that, I’m glad to live in New Zealand. We get a lot of support from the social services, and that’s a thing that a lot of other countries don’t have"
Renzo

Renzo

Renzo | Glen Eden - "I’m thankful for him, he saw something in me, to ask if I wanted to jump onboard. He’s helping me, just trying to push not only me, but everyone in the team, to get up there, and progress through life."
Nichola

Nichola

Nichola | Glenfield - "I care about them because I know from my own personal history that sometimes life can be difficult, and I don’t want anyone to have to face that alone."
Fernanda

Fernanda

Fernanda | Brazil - "I think it’s finding reasons to be thankful every day. It’s finding beauty in life from the simplest things, like I love going bush walking here, and just looking at nature. It makes really happy."
Douglas

Douglas

Douglas | Northcote - "There’s a few things important now I’ve retired. I’m looking at the company of other people my age where we can enjoy the community, as well as helping the community."
Mark

Mark

Mark | Kawakawa Bay - "The majority of our community is good and out there doing the best for New Zealand. I’m thankful that there are people in the community that do that."

DECEMBER

What’s the one thing you need most right now?

Sale

Sale

Sale | Panmure - "The one thing that anyone needs right now is probably some love, eh!"
Scott

Scott

Scott | Newmarket - "To be happy. I think that’s the most important thing. For me happiness is about having a balance."
April

April

April | Māngere - "I’m looking to rent a home, which is very hard to do in Auckland... A home is important for me and my children, because that’s our safety."
Emily

Emily

Emily | Māngere East - "We all need a nice place to live, and somewhere warm and safe. I’m really lucky I’ve got that, but me and my friends, we’ve just been talking about how we all need more support"
Hone

Hone

Hone | Māngere East - "Being a dad is life changing. It’s fantastic. It’s something that I’ve looked forward to personally my entire life, and something that I’ve been working towards in a personal capacity."
Simon

Simon

"One thing I need is good friends, from a personal perspective that’s what is most important to me... I think every human being has a desire to be understood by other people and to share their issues"
Mahana

Mahana

Mahana | Ōtāhuhu - "Disappointment is probably the biggest struggle that I’ve had to go through. I don’t like disappointing people. I don’t like failing people"
Gilbert

Gilbert

Gilbert | Massey - "It’s important to me that I could and should be able to look after my family. It’s pretty distressing that I can’t, but I’m hoping that it’ll change, always hopeful."

NOVEMBER

What’s a recent challenge you’ve faced?

Jenni

Jenni

Jenni | Auckland Central - "The world’s a big place and overcoming my fear of it is knowing that at the end of it, however scared I was at the beginning, it’s not going to seem like such a big deal."
David

David

David | Otara - "I’m just single with children. Yeah, that’s the challenge. You bring them up the right way. Some of them are good, they listen. Some of them, no they don’t listen."
Amy

Amy

Amy | Waiuku - "I’m normally a person who bottles it up a lot, but I have learned to try and talk about those kinds of things a lot more with people I’m really close to"
Joe

Joe

Joe | Ōtara - "Now being an adult, I think some things in life have made me realise how people are, and how people connect culturally and spiritually, and the differences that people have pretty much shape our future."
Sophie

Sophie

Sophie | Belmont - "There’s quite a lot of guilt involved in the decisions you make, whether you decide to stay or go. Because you leave the city and you’re not helping to rebuild it"
Kerry

Kerry

Kerry | Mount Eden - "About five years ago I was beaten up in town somewhere along Queen Street...I got four brain bleeds and I had suffered a stroke. The gym and allowed me to look at life as a less than miserable thing and look for the positives."
Ellie

Ellie

Ellie | Warkworth - "I had to find out new ways to keep myself going; keep myself positive so that I would heal quicker. I ended up getting in a car and just driving to lots of places in New Zealand, and exploring."
Jason

Jason

Jason | Auckland Central - "When I came here, and I had just graduated from high school in my country, I was 18 years old. I didn’t know anything and I hadn’t really spoken English every single day before."

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What is one thing you want to change this year?

JANUARY

When was the last time you felt thankful or grateful?

DECEMBER

What’s the one thing you need most right now?

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What’s a recent challenge you’ve faced?

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