Help Keep Carolina's Family in Aotearoa - Six Years of Giving. Now It's Our Turn

Their visa runs out very soon - in June.

Carolina Nery, her husband Ricardo Stuani and their eight-year-old daughter have lived in Aotearoa for six years. They came from Brazil, but they stayed because this became home, not just a place to be, but a place to contribute to and grow in.

Carolina is an artist, writer, designer, podcaster, teacher (to name a few), but more than any title, she's someone who genuinely shows up for people. Through her work with Gap Filler, she's helped weave connection into a city that rebuilt itself around exactly that idea. The kind of spaces where something quietly shifts and you feel less alone.

Carolina has been accepted into a PhD exploring why communities are locked out of decisions that shape their own cities and how that changes as AI drives more of those decisions. It's not abstract work. It's what she's already been doing on the ground for years, taken further. The PhD creates a pathway for the family to stay.

To take it up, they need to raise $11,000 NZD.

Carolina has spent years quietly making this city better. Creating connection, showing up and building something real.

Now it's our turn.

If you can give, please do. Even a small amount adds up fast when a community moves together. If you can't, please share this page that costs nothing and could change everything.

Carolina & Ricardo's daughter's best friends are here. Her school is here. Her world is here. It's all she's ever known.

Let's make sure she gets to stay in it.