About Auckland Single Parent's Trust
27 November 2014A short video about an Auckland group of Single Mums and Dads.
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Auckland Single Parent's Trust and Te Kaitiakitanga Tamaki Makaurau o te Matua Kotahitanga
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Xmas camp FUND-RAISE
8 November 2014We are very excited to hold a camp at Micamp Whakamaru from the 21st - 26th December, 2014, for 85% of our group doesn't have family in NZ so they can share Christmas together. We could make this a wonderful memory for the children and thank goodness memories are important to our dads. We need a Santa. :) We have arranged rotating activities such as abseiling, kayaking and archery over 3 days and at night we are roasting marshmallows over a bomb-fire. :) The neat thing about set activities is that all our children feel equal. We are not sure what single parents can contribute to this camp especially as it's a long journey from Auckland and our families still have to pay high rents while away. Many work on minimum wage without holiday and sick pay in the health sector or teaching, etc while paying childcare so they earn less working full-time than part-time.
We can take 150 adults and children if families also bring tents. We've managed to raise half the camp fees ($3,000) and are just starting with activities. ($5,500)
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Epworth Retreat/Camp
6 June 2014The idea of camps/retreats/overnight get-togethers came from watching single parents at day events and noticing how they were too busy playing 'with' and caring 'for' their children to invest time into building friendships with other adults to create a supportive network. At the end of the day, single parents returned home to isolation as they are the only adult in their homes. Our early camps were at family holiday parks and at first only families with 1 or 2 children and earning a decent wage/salary could attend. They made the most of the opportunity for family quality time and a break from work yet they still isolated to a degree because opportunity to do things divided them. We fund-raised for sports equipment so families who could not afford to visit tourist attractions or activities like horse riding felt they too were investing in quality time and equally had fun. Next to come was the idea we could fund-raise to take larger families and add daily activities with a cost. The families responded favorably and from here on, we grew and grew and grew. A fabulous core group developed which enabled great teamwork and new members simply adapted to its supportive culture and identity (ways of doing things). In turn, these camps/retreats/overnight get-togethers are very powerful, life changing tools while single parents say, "We are creating long lasting memories for our children". For our Labour weekend camp, we are hoping to fundraise enough $$ to cover the children's camp fees plus two activities being Kayaking and the Waitomo Caves.
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