CHARITY CYCLE RIDERS
PEDALLING FOR THE PEOPLE
Life Education Trust Taranaki
The Life Education Trust is a national charity and the awareness we generate will be nationwide. However funds we raise will go directly to the Life Education Trust Taranaki who successfully deliver the Life Education Programme to many children throughout our region.
In 2014 Life Education Trust (LET) Taranaki visited 68 schools and saw over 9,800 children. Their dedicated Trustees continue to provide fundraising activities in order to allow more children to be educated by LET Taranaki.
Life Education Trust is a non-profit organisation. They teach health to 245,000 primary and intermediate school children each year. They go to schools by invitation, not by right and are linked into the school curriculum. It is a preventative approach teaching children about the wonders of life, themselves and others with the aim in showing them how to reach their full potential. Their philosophy focusses on creating a sensitivity to values which lead to an understanding and appreciation of human life. This enables the child to make decision about any negative influences that may impede the development of their fullest potential.
They achieve this by taking children on an adventure in a mobile classroom equipped with sight and sound equipment designed to capture children’s imaginations. Their educators (who are registered teachers) take children on this journey along with Harold the Giraffe. These educators are chosen for their x-factor and together with Harold, the make the journey fun as well as educational.
Taranaki Rural Support Trust
Listening, guiding and assisting rural families and their communities is what the Rural Support Trust do. When circumstances beyond our control lead to a climatic, financial, environmental or personal crisis, the Taranaki Rural Support Trust is ready to assist. Services are free and all calls are confidential.
The Trust is part of a nationwide network of Rural Support Trusts which assist farming and rural families and their communities. If an adverse event is declared, they are able to access Government funding and utilise support from many Government agencies to help rural individuals and communities get back on their feet.
The Trust covers the entire Taranaki region encompassing the catchments controlled by the three local councils and the Taranaki Regional Council. Trust members are rural people with a wide range of experience and knowledge in dealing with challenging rural situations. The Trust has a trained coordinator to manage responses and experienced facilitators available who travel to where they are needed. Contact is one-on-one at a location that suits the individual and is confidential.
Taranaki Retreat
The Taranaki Retreat is a New Zealand charity, created to provide a safe space when life is challenging, or when time out would provide space to breathe. Whether individuals or families have been touched by suicide, sustained a loss of any kind, or have known the need for sanctuary or time to de-stress, time out is part of the healing process – even survival.
To open during 2015, the doorway of the Taranaki Retreat will always be open. When people simply need a break from whatever the pressure may be – they will find sanctuary in this space, created for peace and beauty.
The retreat is set up to be available, residentially, for koha or for free. The simplicity of life characteristic of the retreat is structured to enable people to stay and be cared for within a family environment without any cost to them or ongoing cost to the community. It is a welcome to Taranaki people of all ages, for all kinds of reasons “for the possibility of seeing things from a different perspective”.
