Collaboration in Term 1

Written By Kim Manunui

Kids Greening Taupō is well known for its collaboration with other organisations, businesses, and educators to make great experiences happen. This is made possible by being part of the Taupō Environmental Education Collaboratative (EEC). Our lead coordinator, Rachel, was asked to speak about collaboration at a webinar for the New Zealand Association of Environmental Education. You can see the webinar here.

This term we have collaborated with lots of different organisations. Here are a few of them…

We worked with Blue Light Taupō to give a group of Tauhara Primary School students an experience doing some native restoration work and joining in with a Greening Taupō Wicked Weeders session.

Some of our student leaders were ‘model clients’ for an NZOIA (New Zealand Outdoors Instructors Association) Bush Skills assessment. They had a great time exploring around Lake Rotopounamu and learning skills for in the bush. Thank you Blue Light for letting us use the van.

Our Coordinators worked with Field-based STEM to support Ruud Kleinpaste’s lessons at St Patricks School. Then he worked with the class doing biological control work with us and helped them with their project. You can read more about the project here.

We provided activities for the children at the Waipahihi Botanical Reserve’s Music in the Garden’s event. We had scavenger hunts, bug hunts, made magic potions, and got up close with a wēta. Our student leaders organised some activities too. A few weeks later Graeme from the Botanical Reserve Society shared his expertise with our student leaders, showing them how to plant correctly, and we planted native trees in the reserve.

We had a fantastic weeding session with Youthtown, teaching them about native restoration work. They cut and pasted the broom in a restoration planting by AC Baths. They did an amazing job and absolutely nailed the broom. It looked awesome!

Kim Manunui

Hi, I’m Kim and I work with a great team to help individuals, as well as small and not so small businesses get their message, product and services to the world using digital media and creating wonderful websites that don’t cost the earth.

I was born in Canada, and grew up around Vancouver and the mountains of British Columbia. My love of pristine environments led me to New Zealand and eventually to the mountains, lakes and rivers of the central North Island which is home. My family’s heritage is here, and it’s from here that Korio traverses the planet.

The digital world is never static and neither are we.

And I say ‘we’ because I work with an awesome group of talented people who I gather together as required to complete a project.  Whatever your business, not-for-profit or individual needs are we gather the best team to get the job done.

Collaboratively we are creative, share sustainable values and work hard for great outcomes because that’s the buzz of satisfaction that drives us.

If you have an audience and market to reach, we can make that happen. Creative design, words that work and smart behind the scenes stuff that cuts through the online noise. We’ll design your website and then build it. We’ll manage the content as well as all your hosting needs. We can handle your online advertising so you get noticed,
and we’ll manage your social media presence so you get the clicks, likes and engagement to grow your business. All within the budget you set, because none of this needs to cost the earth.  And the job doesn’t stop when your website goes live. We are your virtual business partner.

https://www.korio.co.nz
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