This is a personal invitation fot anyone in Mangere doing their own thing to make money ... markets, gleaning, street stalls, on-line, music, sports, garage sales, crafts, catering, importing taro/tapa/kava etc . these are all micro businesses and the local entrepreneurs and these are the things that will change Mangere especially Mangere 275, Mangere East BuynSell, Coconut Wireless, Taaz Dehussler, Recommended Dosage, Mangere East Community Learning Centre, Mangere-Otahuhu Local Board, Affirming Works Ltd, Ivoni Fuimaono, Respect Our Community Campaign - ROCC, Qiane Matata-Sipu, Mangere Mens Shed, 275 Times, Moses Atiola, ShardaeFrom Otara, Anthony From-tonga, Anthony Ruakere, Mez Aue, BlackwoodExit Bwe, Allan Chiefhalfkast Mana, Papatuanuku Kokiri Marae, Valerie Teraitua, . Tuesday 16 September 2014 Creating a resilient, sustainable local economy A resilient economy means taking the scraps and joining them together in different ways to create new resources and opportunity. Join a conversation of those who have taken scraps of time, waste, food, land, and turned its life around. Within this conversation we will talk about microbusiness as an alternative way of building wellbeing for the families and creating opportunity for employment. Location: Mangere East League Club, Walter Massey Park, 10am Welcome and gathering invited stories/speakers [6 x 10 minutes] 11am Breakout conversations 12pm Re-gather and integrate; create new conversations 1pm Celebrate with lunch provided 2pm Re-gather, more stories from the morning, and then conversations 2.30pm Integration and future action session 3pm Close and departure MEFSC Mangere East Family Service Centre in association with Mangere-Otahuhu Backyard Project invites you into a discussion ... We have finally have space and place for our SUSTAINABLE, RESILIENT LOCAL ECONOMIES workshop … Tuesday Sept 16th 9.30 – 3.30 at the Mangere East Hawks Rlc We will be an activity within ‘Sustainable South: From Garden to table and back programme’ [September 15-20] which will include garden visits, practical workshops on hydroponics Anyway we are doing our own low level conversation of champions, practitioners and aspirants so that it is local story telling and local driven. We will be following a similar process of the Far North District Councils Resilient Economies but with our twist ... so opening, 6 champions 10 min in the headlights, open forum and smaller groups in the morning; with and evolution in the afternoon, closing with an action space, and closing. A resilient economy means taking the scraps and joining them together in different ways to create new resources and opportunity. Join a conversation of those who have taken scraps of time, waste, food, land, and turned its life around. Within this conversation we will talk about microbusiness as an alternative way of building wellbeing for the families and creating opportunity for employment. Our key focus will be around sustainable resilient local economy -- what could it look like, what are the various parts/examples/opportunities [we have a professional gleaner/artist, a local recycler, Warren Snow [envision-nz - local social enterprises and resource recovery], the local league club [ Mangere East Hawks Rlc] etc and Laurence Boomert on concepts like micro-business, time banking, local currency] and what stops us .... This conversation is not posh, its koha based so will depend on who turns up with ideas actions and dreams .... We have placed it within Auckland Councils Social Innovation Auckland 2014 socialinnovation2014.net.nz [September]and particularly the Sustainable South: From Garden to table and back programme [September 15-20] and just before Sustainable Business Network PROJECT NZ: THE BIG SHIFT sustainable.org.nz/conference-2014/event/ . Some sessions have limited places, so please sign up for sessions on https://sustainable-south.lilregie/ For more information contact: Peter Sykes MEFSC 021792023 or [email protected] or facebook/peter.sykes.509
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