Healthy Homes Wānanga

Do you want to learn how to keep your whānau safe and healthy in your whare?

Please register for our Mātauranga Kāinga Ora Wānanga and learn the skills you need to feel empowered to keep your whānau dry, warm and healthy.

Oranga kāinga, oranga whānau.

Mō te kaupapa nei

This kaupapa is in collaboration with Sustainability Options. The purpose of these workshops is to teach whānau key tips for a healthy whare.

Tuesday May 6th, 5.30pm-7.00pm | Healthy Homes Workshop

This wānanga answers every question whānau has about why there is mould, how condensation occurs, why it’s so to keep our whare warm, and more importantly it shares knowledge about action whānau can take to make changes themselves towards a warmer, drier, healthier whare. It covers: keeping dampness out of the whare, ventilation and keeping heat inside the whare (including basic maintenance around the whare).

Tuesday May 13th, 5.30pm-7.00pm | Energy efficiency, heating and fire safety

This session will cover all the ways whānau can save on energy use, or, redirect energy use towards a warmer home. It will demonstrate the most efficient and effective (and safe) way to use electric heaters, including heat pumps. It will also go through all the basic but potentially life-saving tips to avoid household fires and be fire-safe, including the correct placement of smoke alarms and the different types of smoke alarms. This session can truly (and has truly) saved lives.

Tuesday May 20th, 5.30pm-7.00pm | DIY session
This basic DIY session focuses on timber joinery (unsuitable for aluminium joinery), secondary glazing and fixing small holes in walls. This session is about sharing knowledge with whānau about some simple but impactful things they can do to have a drier and warmer whare, doing some basic DIY.