A week on the road with Bobbi
It’s always fun getting on the road floating around the motu visiting different Kaitiaki o Ara rōpū and community partners. August is always a bit of a big month for us Programme Delivery Leads as there’s lots of planning and prep heading into SAFER September. I thought I’d take this opportunity to share my adventures from last week.
My week kicked off with a road trip back to my home town of Taranaki. I’ve been working with Gina and Nicole at Sacred Heart Girls College in New Plymouth. They split their Year 11 students in two groups, one group running through the After Party resource and the other went through the obstacle course wearing the vision impairment goggles.It’s always soul-fueling seeing students succeed in organising, leading and running events beginning to finish.
Wednesday I ventured off to the capital to meet with a new rōpū starting at Whitby Collegiate. We went through the introduction workshop, they managed to recruit more people while we were there too! Such an amazing group of young leaders, I can’t wait to see what they come up with. Then I zipped off to meet the Porirua road safety coordinator Mike George, if there’s one thing I’ve learnt about Road Safety Coordinators it’s that their roles are all so varied and what road safety issues they target are very dependent on their area.
Thursday I had the pleasure of catching up with Grace and Lauren from St Oran’s who developed a breakdown guide for their business project. It was amazing to hear about their project and the mahi they’ve put in. Check out our last blog! Then I zipped back to the city of Pōneke to catch up with Wellington College where they identified the dangerous use of mopeds. Being so close to the basin reserve it can be madness at home time. They started to workshop ideas to combat this issue, thinking about what will actually work for their school and how they can put things into action.
I love getting out on the road seeing what awesome mahi rangatahi are doing to create safer roads for our community. Remember you all have a part contributing to the bigger picture across Aotearoa! Keep it up e te iwi!