Not Sure? Ask Us with Catherine Fletcher

It’s CAB Awareness Week! This is a time for putting a spotlight on CAB to celebrate our mahi and highlight to the community the help and services we offer. 

This year’s theme is ‘Awhi mai, awhi atu – empowered together’. It reflects the role of the CAB as a place where the community comes together in the spirit of receiving and giving support and being empowered together.  

This idea of supporting and empowering people, both individually and collectively, is something we know lots about at CAB. It reflects our organisation’s aims – to empower individuals and whānau through our service of advice and information and to empower communities by advocating for fairer laws and policies based on what we learn from our clients. 

In the past year, our volunteers from the local community responded to 6500 enquiries from the public.  

Our volunteers helped people with questions and issues on a wide range of topics including tenancy, employment, consumer purchases, immigration issues, the justice system, relationship issues, and more. 

You can learn more about the CAB by reading the most recent CABNZ Annual Report, at: https://www.cab.org.nz/assets/Documents/About-us/Annual-Reports/2024-CABNZ-Annual-Report-8-Oct-2024.pdf 

Informed by the work CAB does with clients, in the past year CABNZ (our national body) has spoken out on social justice issues including those that affect Māori, renters, migrant workers, consumers, people on income support, and people who experience digital exclusion.  

You can read the recent submissions CABNZ has made on social justice issues, at: https://www.cab.org.nz/what-we-do/social-justice/      

If you need help and don’t know who to ask, or if you would like to give back to the community through volunteering with an organisation that helps people individually and collectively, CAB could be the place for you.  

Hono mai! Come and be a part of the CAB where the community comes together in the spirit of awhi mai, awhi atu – the receiving and giving of support – and being empowered together. 

You can contact us by calling our free CAB phone number 0800 367 222, by dropping in to see us at CAB Tauranga, 367 Cameron Rd (no appointment needed), or by contacting us via our CAB website at cab.org.nz   

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