Making Peace – by Grace Deathride

New Zealand’s biggest neighbourhood celebration, Neighbours Day Aotearoa (NDA), is back for a third year! (If you haven’t heard about NDA, you can read more here).

Over the weekend of 23-24 March 2013, thousands of kiwis will once again take time to get to know those next door. They will share conversation and kai, and forge connections and support systems that will continue to enrich their lives long after the weekend has ended. As a result, many more NZ streets will be turned into neighbourhoods and countless strangers will become neighbours.

Ultimately, small and continued acts of everyday neighbourliness, leads to stronger and more resilient, NZ communities – and most significantly, to the enhanced well-being of individuals, families and whanau.

NDA is a grass-roots campaign running on a limited budget. Despite this challenge, pick-up of this campaign has been extraordinary. Kiwis have connected with the message en masse and organisations like yours have worked hard to spread the word across Aotearoa.

Will you join us to get NDA’s key message of neighbourliness out in 2013? We’d love it if you could. The best way to do this would be to canvas you networks via email and social media, encouraging anyone and everyone to sign-up and check out the NDA website here. Your backing of NDA will go a long way to turning every street in Aotearoa into a neighbourhood.

We’ve attached a few resources to help and you can find more here. We can also send you printed resources including booklets, posters, badges and balloons. We have limited stocks so please only ask for what you know you’ll need and we’ll do our best to get resources into your hands.

Please keep in touch – we’d love to hear about any NDA stories or activities that you become aware of.

Thank you for your commitment to New Zealand’s favourite neighbourhood celebration!

 http://www.neighboursday.org.nz/

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