Kia ora e hoa,
Firstly, apologies for the slow communications over the last couple of weeks. I won’t waste your time with excuses - we’ll do better between now and Christmas :)
If you haven’t been matched yet…
The most important update is that we’re still matching tamariki with gifters in most areas (Auckland hasn’t started yet, but will soon).
Our amazing rangatahi Data Lead Arita has been working hard with our schools coordinating and making sure they have everything they need. There are still schools and services sending their lists in and he’s helping them with everythig they need for that part of our kaupapa at the moment.
If you’ve signed up but haven’t been matched yet, this is why. Arita is matching each school or service as they send their sheets in.
If you have been matched….
We’ll be sending out some emails shortly with more details around dates etc. but in the meantime, thank you for being amazing and getting your koha ready as soon as possible. It’s been great to see people sharing ideas in the Facebook groups. We’ll start sharing our favourite gift ideas on our Instagram page soon too :)
Rangatahi leadership programme….
I’m excited about this weekend’s workshop with our rangatahi crew and our friends at IDIA - an awesome indigenous design agency. We’ll be talking about User Experience, identifying opportunities/problems for our gifters (that’s you) and a project we’re about to kick off together.
If you want to hear more about the rangatahi leadership programme and other non-critical updates you can sign up for our donors’ newsletter here (you will still hear everything you need to hear on this newsletter and social media, the donor-version is over and above what you need to know, it’s just an easy place for us to share more kōrero, especially from our rangatahi).
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Kia pai te mutunga wiki roa - enjoy the long weekend.
Te Kāhui - Vyaan, Jayden, Arita, Telson, Uru, Tiara, Lisa, Sam, Joachim and Pera.
PS if you have any pātai/questions, please email us on support@shoeboxchristmas.co.nz - please don’t reply to this email, it turns into a verrrry long thread and we don’t want to miss your message!