Community Building Initiative (CBI)

As the UYCV representative on the CBI we headed for Reefton on Friday to meet with an enthusiastic group of people from all around our community. Representatives from various groups were able to inform us about their current or planned projects. The theme for the evening was based around Community Gardens. We heard about some great examples that are happening and some which would like to happen. Some are happening in the schools in the area and this is really great to get the young children involved. This included examples of then using the produce to cook and make your own lunch. We also heard from the UYCEP group which is modelled upon CERES. We look forward to establishing some kind of network to enable some support for all of the projects happening. How wonderful it would be to be able to create from new and gain the advice from so many with the expertise? And ... we had so many passionate, talented, experienced folks from so many places in our community. We also heard form MERG and their excellent plans for paths to link up work already undertaken. A night of community building and hopefully more to come.