25 January 2023
This thought-provoking Hui E! news item - The next generation of Aotearoa’s Community and Voluntary Sector: What’s needed? - focuses on how things could be different for grassroots community groups in the current challenging times.
Rochelle Stewart-Allen from Hui E! suggests that rather than tweaking existing systems, a full systems change is needed.
This transformational change will take more than those who are already holding positions of power and pathways are needed for new people to come through - we have no choice by to adapt and shift.
Rochelle suggests starting with these changes:
Change 1: Recognising and understanding our sector’s value
Change 2: Improving our language
Change 3: Recognising the value of collaboration and whakawhanaungatanga
Read more here.