Girls Club

Girls Club

Who runs the world? GIRLS! This is definitely true on a Monday lunchtime at HQ, when Peta McKay, Sam Watson and Annabel Fairbairn go and hang out with the HQ girls. Pictured here are Sam, Emma, Peta and Sabina. Sometimes the girls make origami or do other things,...
Fun with the Pippins

Fun with the Pippins

Here’s Madi Gainsford hanging out with the Pippins, making Matariki quilts “This week I helped the girls out teaching them about Matariki, we sung a Waiata and talked about the seven sisters which make a star formation in the sky to signify the Maori New...
Thank you Maggie!

Thank you Maggie!

Maggie Stiven spent some of her weekend stacking firewood for a Luggate local with a broken hand, who was super super grateful for the help. It means she has dryer wood and a warmer house. It also means though that the community got a bit stronger and a bit more...
Food for Love

Food for Love

Baking for people is a great way of showing them you care. Baking for people you don’t know, and won’t meet, to give them a helping hand and a smile in their stomachs, is extra sweet. Jessie Fothergill (pictured) and Bella Thomsson bake for Food for Love...
Lucas at the library

Lucas at the library

Lucas Baird has been shelving books at the Wanaka Library as part of his volunteer activities for SIC. While there he got chatting to Sonia, who is from Bangladesh. Sonia is new to Wanaka. She’s learning English and must take an exam, which will also improve her...