Housing First Ōtautahi
February 6, 2023
World Homeless Day Exhibition
This photo voice project was designed to empower the homeless allowing them to tell their own story while protecting their mental and physical wellbeing. Together with the help of Housing First Ōtautahi and the Christchurch Methodist Mission, people living on the streets were given assistance to photograph their daily lives for an exhibition marking World Homeless Day. Those taking part were also interviewed about their lives and asked to explain why the photos they took mattered. Without the extraordinary generosity of Housing First community workers none of this would have been possible, their work with vulnerable and marginalised people living on the streets is above and beyond.
For generations, the ancestral rock art of the Arowhenua people has been owned by others, with the land and limestone caves held in private ownership as part of a Gould family farm. Now after more than 170 years, Te Rūnanga o Arowhenua has purchased back the land and full access and ownership of their ancient taonga.
Sit across the table if you're able
from that person that you harmed
and disarmed listen
leave defences at the door
and do nothing more than listen.