Akomanga Kaihanga - INTRODUCING TEAM DONCORN

Kia ora & Greetings to you. Once again, welcome to my blog. My name is Maya and I am a PBL currently attending Tamaki College. 

These past few weeks, I have had the wonderful opportunity in working on projects with people from the outer community and also have the privilege to be apart of the Akomanga Kaihanga class. We are also knows as “The Creative Class” where we take learning from both in school and out in community and put into action. Our class have been working on projects we all debated on earlier this term. I was put in a group along with five lovely team members named Kingston, Mafi, Tata, Jaylim, and Poiva. Together we are known as Team DonkCorn ( resembling Donkey’s & Unicorns ). It took us quite a while to negotiate what idea we thought would be best and over time, we realized it was the one! So, We decided to go out of the loop and unpack domestic violence in families around Tamaki. 

To raise awareness of what we do, we’ve held two events on Maybury Reserve where we have free food, games, and people who’ve experienced violence in homes to talk to. We decided that this would fit in perfectly with the community because, family violence isn’t always at home, most of the time its in public. Our project has been on the run for three weeks now and this up-coming Saturday is our last week. What we are trying to do is raise awareness of why domestic violence in families is a big problem.  

Our goal is to help prevent. reduce the amount of violence at home. Not only that but another goal for us is to help the community think of others as their family members so that violence wouldn’t be as bad as you think nowadays.

When it comes to my project, I always look at it with fresh eyes and think of it as an emphatic thing I’ve done. Our project is coming to an end and at times it gets frustrating because there a quite a few things we need to make sure we have fulfilled before we end it. Next term, My group and I are planning on continuing our project but with a plot twist affixed to it. We haven’t decided what it is we’ll do exactly, but hopefully it’ll be something that links with the community.