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Guests: Amanda Girvan (guest speaker), Grace (guest of Indeevar, and RYPEN high roper)
Ata Marie from President Shiv.
Notices & Announcements
Eyes for Africa – thanks for the used glasses for Eye Care for Africa clinic.
K Valley Planting Day 14 June.
Alzheimer’s Collection 23 May – looking for volunteers
Hot Steaming Piles of Pudding are still available ($25) – Contact Henry
Change Over – Booked in for Lunch at the Harbourside 4 July. Mark it in your diary now. (There will be no breakfast meeting on Friday 3 July)
Guest Speaker – Amanda started with her personal pepeha – from Whakatane, a Tuhoe mother and Irish father. Followed that up with the Cedar Hub Charitable Trusts pepeha. This is an organisation providing change programmes for men who use violence against their families. It started in 2022 with a cohort of 8 men.
Five family violence professionals noticed the gap of service in the sector and in 2023 the organization was approached by the police to become part of the Western Bay of Plenty Police Family Harm Intervention Team. Up until this point the work had been voluntary. 2026 was the first year that the facilitators were able to be paid.
CEDAR is an acronym for challenging courage, education, discovery, accountability and recovery which forms the framework for effective intervention. www.cedarhub.org.nz
Police custody visits and Safety Assessment Meetings (SAMs) are conducted by the CEDAR team. The core programme however is the Behavioural Change Group which runs for 19 weeks for self-referred men.
Sergeant Session
Buddy Mikare started with an auction for a famous book, written by an equally famous author. Wasn’t much of an auction with Henry blowing other bidders out of the water with early extravagant bid.
Buddy then told us about the Pioneer Batallion of WW1 – Gallipolli, Chunuk Bair, the Western Front, Le Quesnoy and Le Maori Café.
Parting Thought:
“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
ANZAC Day
Lunch photo with all Elè’s host families.
Glenn Dougal and Debbie Green (1st host family), Jeneene Brader (2nd host-mum) and Lissy Brader-Steed (host sister who has just returned from a Rotary exchange in Belgium), Kate Barry-Piceno & Craig Bachelor (current host family) and Jen Scoular (final host from May). Mahatma Ghandi
