Homes of Hope Charitable Trust has received a grant of $10,378 from the NZCT towards funding for their children's home maintenance, including filing cabinets, computer screens, and internal house painting.
Homes of Hope Charitable Trust provides a seven bedroom home for children from hard places, the Rata home, that is in desperate need of the interior painting (please see picture attached). This is important to ensure our children have a comfortable home away from home whilst they are receiving the therapeutic care that they badly need and deserve. At the present time the home is becoming extremely shabby but funding is always needed for other priorities. The home has not been painted internally for the past ten years and has seen innumerable children from hard places begin to lead normal lives and enjoy a childhood that has eluded them in the past.
“Homes of Hope was founded in December 2002 in response to seeing a need for the consistent care of tamariki/children who were unable to live safely at home. Their histories are of abuse and neglect. Their experiences resulting in developmental trauma. Our first home, Rata, opened in June 2003 and since then has seen many many children call this ‘home’ for a season. This is the home needing a new internal paint.”
We have also established and grown a Child Centred Play Therapy centre on our property, where these children are able to access child-centred counselling through the medium of play. This reaches not only the tamariki in our care, but those in the community who need this healing support. It is such a joy to see them grow and heal through the therapeutic process, and it is such an honour to connect with their whanau/family as they do so.”
Over the past eighteen years, Homes of Hope has supported and nurtured hundreds of broken young lives towards becoming happy, confident, and well-adjusted people who go on to contribute to the world in meaningful ways. All funding goes towards the children’s therapeutic needs and day-to-day needs along with operational requirements to run an organisation such as Homes of Hope.
