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Caritas 24-Hour Challenge – Supporting the Soloman Islands
This year’s Caritas Lenten appeal is focused on the Solomon Islands. Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand is an agency for justice, peace and development.
Water activity – Leaders testing out the activities for the day
Money raised will support caritas intheir programmes to help provide clean water, food and health care to communities in the Solomon Islands.
Challenge 2000 will be running a 24 hour non-stop event which will incorporate the four aspects of the challenge which are Live it, Sweat it, Stop it, Move it
This event will held from 5pm Friday 4th April finishing at 5pm Saturday 5th of April at Challenge 2000, 27 Dr Taylor Terrace Johnsonville.
LIVE IT our young people will experience what it feels like to live without a home. Come along and live in our temporary housing made from cardboard boxes, newspapers and tarpaulins.
SWEAT IT our young people experience what it feels like to work in shifts making items that help you earn a living.
Leaders and team captains practicing activities
MOVE IT our young people will work together with other young people to make a difference.
STOP IT our young people will move out of their comfort zone to try something new without the normal accessories and comfort.
If you are interested in being part of this or supporting it, please contact Heath on 0273293270 or Nicole 021655697, Challenge 2000 4770045 or heathhutton@challenge2000.org.nz.
If you would like to send details of this event you can download a poster here
Leaders planning the event
Youth Justice Camp
From the 24th-28th February Challenge 2000 took a Youth Justice Camp away. The group included two young men referred from the Lower Hutt Youth Court, two youth leaders and three staff.
For our two young men the focus of the camp was to develop empathy and self-esteem. The camp hoped to broaden the horizons of these young men and expose them to a range of pro social activities and exercises including camping, abseiling, fishing, white water rafting, hiking and woodworking. These activities along with a number of therapeutic exercises provided a wide range of physical and emotional challenges.
This was an amazing week for all involved and we were spoilt with beautiful whether as we travelled through the Wairarapa to Taupo and down the Kapiti Coast. It was great to see our young men growing in confidence, including our two youth leaders continuing to build their knowledge and skills in order to support others in future.
Neighbours Day 2014
On Saturday 29th March Newlands celebrated Aotearoa’s Neighbours Day 2014.
Challenge 2000 was there, at Nga Hau e Wha O Paparangi (30 Ladbrooke Drive), to join in on the fun! The wind kept blowing out the bbq, but once we put the bbq in a wind free zone we were cooking up a storm!
There was a great turn of of Newlands neighbours and lots to see and do. Thank you to everyone who came along to celebrate!
Children’s Day Celebrations
Children’s Day was a real summer’s day full of laughter, fun, games, water fights, ice creams, milk shakes and a sausage sizzle which was enjoyed by all children, young people, parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles and leaders.
It was awesome to see everyone get so involved with the different activities that were going on and the enthusiasm that went with it as well. There were also lots of new faces that came along this year, so it was wonderful to see the interaction between the everyone. We couldn’t be more happy about how successful the day was and how everyone had lots of enjoyment participating in the day. Everyone left with big smiles on their face, some wetter than they arrived thanks to the water fight! We look forward to seeing everyone at other Challenge 2000 events throughout this year.
Choosing a topping for his ice cream!
Hand painting time
Juice and Ice Cream table – choices were a plenty!
Good in the Hood
Good in the Hood is Z stations way of giving back to organisations in the neighbourhood. At our Johnsonville Z station, Challenge 2000 has been selected as one of the four neighbourhood groups and we need your orange tokens please!For the month of MARCH, if you visit our local Johnsonville Z station and make a purchase (excluding cigarette only purchases) you’ll be given an orange token, and then you can pop that token in the container marked Challenge 2000. It doesn’t matter how much you spend, you could buy petrol, a coffee or a yummy bite to eat, ask for a token and make your vote!For those that are not near the Johnsonville Z station, never fear, click on www.z.co.nz/GoodintheHood and you can hunt for Virtual tokens that you can then give to Challenge 2000.
As always, thank you so much for your support
Welcome New Gap Students
On Tuesday 18th and Friday 21st February six new faces were welcomed to Challenge 2000 to take on a big adventure for 2014.
Challenge 2000 hosted a powhiri to officially welcome Junior, Moriah, Taylor, Vaga and Tala as part of the Challenge and Marist whanau and then on Friday we welcomed Leah to the Gap Year Programme. These Six have chosen to live a year dedicated to service, justice, challenges and growth. We are very happy to have them here and look forward to walking alongside them on their individual and group journeys! Already they’re off on Court Supervised Camps, up in Hawkes Bay to help Luke and Manisha, giving a helping hand at L’arche and developing as trainee youth workers around Challenge. A huge thanks to Jacob Wilkins-Hodges and Fr Paul Martin for your words of welcome.
Keep an eye here to find out what more unfolds for the ‘Gappies’ in 2014.
Johnsonville Youth Group
Our Johnsonville based youth group is back for 2014! For our first gathering of the year we spent a beautiful Wellington day at Scorching Bay.
Last year it was awesome to have young people aged 10 to 15 from a number of different schools around Wellington come together as part of their Johnsonville community. Highlights from last year were friendships made, fun action packed group sessions, a trip to laserforce and getting involved in different community events. All are welcome! If you’re interested in attending please contact Courtney on 4770045 or courtneyhalliday@
Sundays 11.30am – 1.30pm at Challenge 2000 Youth and Family Centre, 27 Dr Taylor Tce, unless otherwise arranged.
Waka Ama
We would like to say a huge THANK YOU to the Porirua Canoe and Kayak Club for taking our young people and staff out on the water to try their hands at Waka Ama!
Everyone was having such a good time, even the sun had to pop out from behind the clouds to see what we were up to!
Learning how to paddle
Working as a team
Working to get the waka into the water
Success!
Row row row your waka
A nice day for being out on the water!
Children’s Day
Sunday the 2nd March is National Children’s Day. We will be celebrating in summer style at Challenge 2000! We will have a sausage sizzle, milkshakes, ice cream, games, lots of fun and prizes to share. You and your family are invite to join us at the Challenge 2000 Youth and Family Centre in Johnsonville. See you there from 11.30am until 1pm!
If you are looking for ways to help out the community, a donation towards food for this day would go a long way! We are using this as an opportunity to fundraise for youth activities so any donations will be gratefully received.