Te Waipuna Puawai Mercy Oasis

Vision / Mission / Goals

VISION: The restoration of women, children and the earth.

MISSION: Working together to strengthen women, stregthen families and strengthen community.

Te Waipuna Puawai (TWP)operates from two properties owned by the Sisters of Mercy. At any one time, our Glen Innes(GI)Centre provides whanau family services (including crisis intervention, advocacy, referral, and extensive casework) to around 140 families. At our neighbouring Ellerslie Centre, over 80 women participate in personal, tertiary and professional development programmes each term and up to 18 pre-school children attend our on-site fully licensed Nga Purapura Puawai early childhood care and education unit.

Our Ellerslie centre is a purpose-built education facility. It allows TWP to develop creative arts opportunities, healing therapies, and environmental projects including organic/permaculture gardening and wetland restoration. TWP is also active in fostering Maori language and cultural practices, developing community volunteers, supporting local community workers, and providing leadership in GI community-owned and driven initiatives such as the GI Visioning Project.

What we currently do in the way of marketing

Done mailbox drops to promote our early childcare centre. Produce an annual newsletter

Message to Students / How you can help

We'd love to have a website for a number of reasons:

To profile our organisation and promote the work we do and the difference we make in peoples live
As a marketing tool to sell products that are made on site by local women to generate income to support our work
To promote new developments as our organisation grows, e.g. teen parent unit to be established in 2008