20/03/2023
✨️NEWS FLASH ✨️
Kia ora koutou!
It is with a heavy heart that we inform the community that the Koha Shed is now PERMANENTLY CLOSED.
It has been a constant struggle with rubbish dumping. Despite generous help from local businesses and waste management companies providing skips and discounts for years, it has still become unsustainable.
The beautiful people at Helping Families are inheriting the large container and incorporating it into their kaupapa, which we are very happy about.
Please consider donating to them in future to continue all the sharing.
A HUGE thank you to all our donors over the Sheds lifespan. (Especially those who provided a roof!) Your generosity gave so much back to our community.
A special thank you to Victory School and the Victory Community Center kaimahi for all the awhi and manaakitanga over the years.
Of course, none of this would have ever been possible without all the helping hands of many volunteers. We certainly had some fun though, right? Thank you for giving your all.
And to you, Sarah, bless you for keeping it all together for the last 3 years. You can rest now! 🤣
To our wonderful Woodman who helped keep you all warm and toasty in winter. Your generosity was so appreciated ❤️
To our rubbish contractors who gave discounts and did their very best for us...you definitely kept us above water when we should have sunk!
For a small Shed, it certainly saw BIG acts of kindness.
"He iti te mokoroa, nāna i kati te kahikatea"
(The mokoroa grub may be small, but it cuts through the kahikatea)
This whakatauki reminds us that this small Shed had a big impact. It operated on kindness and collective effort that made a big difference to so many.
E noho rā te hapori o Whakatū ❤️
