Save Community Education

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Accessible, adult community-education programmes help to build an inclusive society that promotes the wellbeing of its people. They bring us together as New Zealanders. These community services are also vital recovery partners for many people with experience of mental-health problems.

Cutting funds to such a vital sector of our national community will have serious, negative consequences for a large portion of the country.

We, the undersigned, strongly urge you. Protect our community-education services. Nurture our creative programmes. Enhance our language services and our personal development services.

175 Signatures

  • Deva St. John-Parisian
  • Miriam Barr
  • Angelina Stanton
  • Sherrena Dawson
    • Comments
    • For those in the community who use these locally provided courses, either for personal growth or a step ito more formal education, cutbacks to Community Education will without a doubt, be a devastating loss.
  • Erwin van Asbeck
    • Comments
    • This is of vital importance and I would hope seriously at reinvesting in this sector. Community Adult Education is an important part of the diverse fabric of our society. The monetary amount that is being supposedly saved does not in any way reflect the worth of what will be lost. Please reconsider, Community Adult Education is a real link for people using Health services to re-engage with their communities and gain new skills and confidence to develop and gain employment.
  • David Breen
  • Louise Pentney
  • Lesley Gamlen
  • Gina Roberts
  • Gervaise Ledger
  • James Elvidge
  • Jeanne Walters
  • Margaret Revell
    • Comments
    • Community Education assists a society to be more healthy and involved in the workplace.
  • Ezekiel Daniel John Kennedy
    • Comments
    • This will impact on all levels of our community... As for many people Community Education is the only option for many and also the only "life line" with the community at large".. This will directly impact socially in new zealand for generations to come.
  • Kim Newton
    • Comments
    • Loniless is one of the biggest killers especially whan it comes to mental health we are so isolated anyway.There is alink between social interaction and lower immune system and suicieds,The money you save now in prevention can save thousands in later health care costs and suffering.
  • Oliver Chun Xu
  • Evan Rainger
    • Comments
    • Universal Matriculation is a mistake.
  • Richard Bell
    • Comments
    • Our prisons are filling up with people who really just need a place like Toi Ora to heal. To deplete their funds would be a TRAGEDY!
  • Jaime Courtney
  • Linde Rosenberg
    • Comments
    • The loss of night classes is a community tragedy
  • Sharon Lovelock
  • judith rosamund
    • Comments
    • this is an amazing resource that benefits SO many people and will be lost forever if this policy is implemented. PLEASE RECONSIDER.
  • Anne Ho
    • Comments
    • Two important areas which the government should look after in particular are health and education and this petiotion involves both so I am 100\% behind this petition
  • Ila Selwyn
  • graham bishop
    • Comments
    • how mean can you get
  • Timothy Elvidge
  • Ronald E Andreassend
  • Anaise Irvine
    • Comments
    • В
  • Michael Botur
    • Comments
    • I work for Literacy Aotearoa, which is a partner of ACE. We need funding maintained for the betterment of our communities.
  • Dee Murch
  • Frankie McMillan
    • Comments
    • Community Education should be saved. The benefits are enormous for our sense of community
  • Ramesh Nayar
    • Comments
    • As a health professional working with an extensive, deprived clientele, of which the majority either do not have English as a first language, or are born to parents who did not have English as their first language, I can attest to the importance of community educational outreach in terms of both individual well-being and arguably a reduction in the amount of long term social welfare outlays consumed by such recipients.
  • Pam O'Donoghue
  • Campbell Larsen
    • Comments
    • В
  • Barbara A Smith
  • Helen Mackinnon
    • Comments
    • Why target the elderly or low income people?
  • Christian Jensen
    • Comments
    • В
  • Karen Smith
    • Comments
    • of vital importance to all our futures..excellent value for money
  • Jan Blundell
  • keleni talau
    • Comments
    • Community is the next extension of family, extended family etc.Taking away community education would be like chopping your nose off to spite the face, if that saying is correct
  • Daniel Larsen
    • Comments
    • I don't have much faith in the Hon Tony Ryall, nor his PM. But here's my tick for what its worth.
  • Robin Fry
  • Adrian Sauberlich
  • Stephen Riley
  • Jennifer Howarth
  • namrata
  • Heidi Brickell
  • Prue Elvidge
    • Comments
    • Surely the small amount of money raised by
  • Shelley Olsen
  • wendy hodder
    • Comments
    • please please!