_Don’t Worry, Be Happy _Unf ck The World _Ten Words We Love _Mike & Mandy What is this beautiful wee publication I’m holding? The Generosity Journal showcases mighty fine people who are making a positive impact in this world. It’s a fresh dose of positive media brought to you by One Percent Collective, a Kiwi-based charity that helps you share 1% of your income with great causes on the regular.

PUBLISHER: One Percent Collective

EDITOR: Pat Shepherd

SUB EDITOR: JDJd NodderNodder

ART DIRECTION: Natasha Vermeulen – – www.fromthemill.co.nz fromthemill.co.nz

COVER ILLUSTRATION: Cracked Ink – crackedink.com CONTRIBUTORS: BenHow Hurley, to DAD, Esther Peter McLaren,Campbell, Tobias Grant Kraus,Maiden, JanetteVictoria Searle,Birkinshaw, Laura Ash O’Connell Church, Rapira, Simeon Magdalena Patience, Pat Bisley, Shepherd, OliverEmmet Vetter, Riddle, Natasha Jo Cribb, Vermeulen, Sia Toomaga, Guy NatashaRyan, Sarah Vermeulen, Longbottom, Jeremy JamesHansen, Nokise, Hemana, Sarah Jd Nodder,Lang, Justin Telford Lester, Mills, Stephanie Dr Tony Fernando, McIntyre, ReubenCamden Harcourt, Howitt, Kate Richard Neill, Brimer, Melissa Lee-Anne Clark-Reynolds, Duncan, Sarah Dr Max Berry, BradleyLongbottom, Garner, Amane The Neonatal & Me, Fox&Co, Trust, YoshiTim Wightman, Travel Films, Leo Sarah Straight, With AshaMacdonald, Payton. Tobias Kraus, Libor Klimes, Billie Brook, Josh Naus. WHERE WE GET S#%T DONE: BizDojo Wellington thanks ONE PERCENT COLLECTIVE SPONSORS: Future 50, Trade Me, Flick Electric Co., SimplyPaySauce, Payroll, Wellington Wellington Hospitality Hospitality Group, Group, The Original Cocoa Traders, Klim Type Foundry, Sam Newble of Tommy's, BizDojo.BizDojo and we'd like to also welcome Real Steel. TYPOGRAPHY: Klim Type Foundry kindly licensed the use of Newzald, Founders Grotesk and Founders Grotesk X Condensed. klim.co.nz

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UpsideDowns $33,942.71 Bellyful $36,514.30 Helping kids with Down syndrome Providing meals for families with newborn find their voice. babies and families with young children who are struggling with illness. Sustainable Coastlines $105,582.63 Enabling people to look after the DCM Wellington $99,912.08 coastlines and waterways they love. DCM works with people in Wellington who are experiencing homelessness or are at risk The Garden to Table programme is The Neonatal Trust $71,422.46 of homelessness. now in over 150 schools, reaching nearly 10,000 students across NZ! Dedicated to making a difficult start to life that little bit easier. Inspiring Stories $64,806.68 Building a movement of young Ngā Rangatahi Toa $98,409.27 New Zealanders who can, and will change the world. Together, through creativity, we change lives. Take My Hands $35,430.20 SpinningTop $96,096.13 Improving lives by connecting those that have with those in need. Gives balance to vulnerable children living in poverty. Garden to Table $80,829.15 Kaibosh $116,831.21 Changing the way children approach and think about food. Zero Food Poverty, Zero Food Waste. Inspiring Stories brought together 1,300 young changemakers for their 2018 Sustainable Coastlines have now presented to Festival for the Future. Super inspiring! over 200,000 people and cleaned up almost * As at 31st August 2018. The large dollar differences are due to charities being partners for varying lengths of time. The total raised to date also includes 1.5 million litres of rubbish from our beaches! $120,275.86 worth of donations to our legacy charities, who were past funding recipient organisations. LAURIE JESSICA MANINS FOON editor's yarn

One. Million. Dollars! Yep, as I write this, your 1% donations are collectively on the verge of hitting the million dollar raised milestone, an amazing Collective achievement! While we talk here about the dollar figures, the most important thing to remember is that each and every donation is impacting the lives of people and the environment in Aotearoa and beyond. That’s thousands of lives supported each and every year by your small, regular acts of generosity. I think that’s pretty darn awesome! So when Louis Sutherland and Naz Nazli sent us through the final words for our new ‘Mike & Mandy’ video, you can just imagine the grin when we read this: Sometimes giving almost nothing means almost everything. JUSTIN LESTER VERBERNE It beautifully captures what this whole JAN generosity movement is about, a small act JOSH that has minimal impact on our day-to-day BORTHWICK lives, yet has the hugest impact on those who need our support. To all of you who have been part of the Collective journey over the years, I can’t thank you enough for the support you have given, in so many ways. Believe me, meeting the charities and seeing the lives impacted makes this thing so incredibly worthwhile.

To those of you ready to join us in giving a %, CAITLIN we can’t wait for your help in creating even MACKAY more impact. Thank you.

PAT We’re asking a number of our generous donors why they give a %. Then we’re teaming them Editor/Chief Doer of Things up with our talented writers and the cream of the crop of NZ photographers who are kindly donating their skills to capture portraits of these wonderful humans! at One Percent Collective GABIE Go check them out at onepercentcollective.org/profile GEORGE MY PLAN TO SAVE THE WORLD:

To start this piece-of-words thing I Just by meeting new people and listening, I started thought I’d come up with a clever title. to feel the paddock grass under my feet. What is the opposite of tunnel vision? Listening to people with different opinions to mine: from simple things like, what flavour pizza is the Bridge vision? Panoramic vision? best to people with very determined, strong Paddock vision!? Not as clever as I’d opinions on curbing racism, people fighting for hoped for, but has a bloody decent same-sex marriage, global warming solutions Kiwi ring to it so I’ll stick with that. and women's rights. I didn’t always agree with everything this melting PADDOCK VISION. We need more people with pot poured on me, but it opened my mind to new paddock vision. ways of thinking. My tunnel with its single one-way I grew up in a small rural town and, like a lot of lane was long gone. Go back 25 years to my small small New Zealand towns were back then, I had town and these ideas, these big thinkers would have quite conservative views, my family had quite been brushed aside, laughed at or rammed out of conservative views. The more liberal city folk the tunnel. would have said we had tunnel vision. That we I would say that travel opened my way of thinking, suffered from tunnel vision. but nowadays with the internet, every Kiwi can hear For the past ten years I've lived in the ‘big smoke’. ideas from all around the world. You don’t need to I’ve travelled a lot around this globe of ours, leave your living room to start thinking differently, encountered new…encounters? I’m also married appreciating others opinions and broadening your and have three kids (three daughters – please own awareness of the world. It’s 2018 and I’d love to send help). For a 30 year old I like to think I’ve think all of New Zealand is now more open to change. seen a lot, but did I see enough? Yes. I’d like to think we are all standing in a paddock, the boundaries of our comfort zones a distant rusty Back in 2007, Auckland rubbed off on me, thick and No. 8 wire fence. fast. The cliche ‘melting pot’ of people from all walks of life knocked me for six for a few months – but you Sadly, as many of you will witness now and again, are what you eat...no, that's not right, can we just say, there are still people throughout New Zealand stuck you are what you live? My tunnel was demolished in a tunnel. Too much smog in there, Bro. Get ya self pretty quickly, sometimes by other ideas smacking some Paddock Vision. me behind the ears, but mainly by me opening Paddock Vision, $59.99. Headset only, batteries my eyes to new things, smashing down slabs of not included. concrete myself. To see How to DAD’s hilarious collection of videos, it’s as simple as Googling ‘How to DAD’.

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Honeywrap was inspired by nature and a passion for making Nisa is an underwear label that aims to TWICE is a podcast produced out of the “BLUE is a cinematic song for our oceans; Thankyou is a social enterprise that a difference by reducing the amount of plastic on the planet. help refugee women from the bottom BizDojo in Wellington that is well worth beautiful, intimate and grand. Fearlessly commits 100% of profit from their products We absolutely love using them, plus a portion of profits from this up. Their underwear is lovingly sewn by getting your headphones tuned into. truth-telling, yet passionately hopeful. to help end global poverty. In nine years, limited edition foodwrap above go towards our partner charity women from a refugee background in It focuses on entrepreneurially-minded See this film and you will want to rise up Thankyou has given over $5.8 million to Sustainable Coastlines. a sunny studio in Wellington. people striving to make society a better with the waves.” Yep, the quote from the projects in 20 countries. We’re excited to honeywrap.co.nz nisa.co.nz place for everyone and we love it! website says it all, this film is a MUST see. see them recently launch here in NZ. twicepodcast.com bluethefilm.org or rent on iTunes thankyou.co.nz GOOD WORK Lani Evans

Like most people, I am not a single-issue person so Payroll in the form of small grants shared in Dunedin, it’s a lot of different hats to wear! I want to see a fairer Christchurch and Wellington. When we set up the world; one where equality, equity and liberation Trust I saw it as an opportunity to do something are the norms. Where we think about the world in different. I wanted the funds to go to grass-roots holistic terms and we consider intersectionality – community organisations all over the country and the way in which different systems overlap to raise I wanted to do it well, which meant accepting the people up, or push people down – in our approaches. fact that I actually had no idea what’s important in Wakari, or what’s working well in South Dunedin. When I was growing up my mum introduced The people who live there do. So we set up a me to this way of life – she managed a volunteer participatory process that enables people from programme, was the primary caregiver of our family the community to decide where the money goes. and sat on the board of Women’s Refuge in the People with lived experience, deciding what a good evenings. She was always thinking about others and investment is in their place and doing it together. engaged the world with compassion and empathy. I love it. It’s super joyful. My upbringing definitely had a huge influence on my life and the career path I chose. About eight years ago, my mum began a battle with depression, anxiety and suicidality. It’s tough having You’d be forgiven for thinking that Lani Evans was New Zealand’s My first interaction with the Vodafone New Zealand own Superwoman. She heads the Vodafone New Zealand Foundation, a loved one experiencing something terrible that you Foundation was in 2009, as a World of Difference can’t stop or fix for them. And it must be so much co-chairs Thankyou Charitable Trust, chairs Thankyou Payroll and is grant recipient. It was an incredible experience and harder for her. There’s a Rupi Kaur poem that says on the committee for the JR McKenzie Trust’s Peter McKenzie Project. when this job came up the relationship I had with the ‘and here you are living, despite it all’ and that really Not to mention being involved in the first all-female traverse of the Foundation and my fascination with philanthropy resonates for me. I honestly can’t think of anything made it irresistible. My role is very diverse – I work more brave and badass than battling with your own South Island, proposing to her partner at the end of the 100km Oxfam on strategy, communications, grant-making and Trailwalker and fighting the crime of wastefulness through dumpster mind every day. I am so proud of her and proud to government relations, while looking for ways to be her daughter. diving – plus being an amazing 1% donor and Future 50 member. Phew! leverage the power of Vodafone. Since I began the role, we’ve completely reformed our strategy and Her struggles motivate me to work harder. We need Words by Jd Nodder. Image by Pat Shepherd. we’re on a 10 year, $20 million journey to halve the to strive for a different world, one where equity, number of excluded and disadvantaged young people justice and kindness are at the heart of everything in Aotearoa. It’s an ambitious goal, and one that I we do. And to get there we need philanthropy, am committed to achieving. but we also need activism and structural change and hard work and love. Keep giving, and keep giving in But I’m probably most proud of the Thankyou all possible ways, but never forget that philanthropy Charitable Trust. It’s a modest organisation my is not all there is. husband and I set up in 2012 to redistribute a percentage of the revenue earned by Thankyou foundation.vodafone.co.nz GOOD WORKJames Bushell

Much later, I set up a free educational a system like government or a business. facility in Thailand, which helped me For me, these systems are not intrinsically Inspired by the possibility of making realise the privilege I had been given and good or bad, it is the people who act morally someone’s life better gets Motif’s the responsibility I had to stand up for or immorally. To overcome these hurdles we Director and One Percent’s Chair, those who had not been afforded the same need more transparency. We need to hold opportunities. One day, a small boy wandered people to account for their actions, and we James Bushell, out of bed each day. in off the street and joined in with us. He’d need to treat business as the tool that it is and A fan of millenials and their been there awhile before his grandmother use them to make impact. came in, intoxicated, and demanded money. conscientious decision-making When I explained that we wouldn’t give her I love that I get to work on projects I believe (go millenials!) and a member of the any money she began to get violent and the will help create a more equitable and crew that sailed a vaka unassisted boy ran over to me. It was one of the toughest sustainable world. The people we work with things I’ve done, letting him go, but I told her amaze and inspire me. My days are very to Bougainville and back searching different: one day I might be working with for sustainable cocoa beans for that he could stay as long as he wanted, and come back at any time. We never saw him farmers in Papua New Guinea, the next I will Wellington Chocolate Factory, James again. These days I try to influence the systems be sitting around a board table with business is pretty proud he hasn’t scared his that allow this suffering and degradation to leaders and government officials. There is a family and friends away, yet. occur. For me, business has a massive impact lot of diversity in our work, which is really on our societies and has the ability to enhance cool because they all want to work towards a Words by Jd Nodder or exploit communities and environments. better world, in their own way. Image by Pat Shepherd I want to help them enhance. We have similar challenges as many other I frequently learn about how different organisations: growth, budgets, cash flows, environments can lead to extreme HR, balancing economics with ethics, but behaviours. Recently, I was in a situation one of the unique challenges I find is promoting something that is ultimately I grew up with an awareness that a where a group decided that they would murder someone because of where he was unattainable and that I myself certainly do culture of caring for the community not always achieve. I don’t bike as much as was important, but never really born. I tried to help him escape and they found out; I was held and threatened at I should, my food or drink is not always in a understood it until I was older. compostable or reusable container, planes One day I was collecting money on gunpoint. The group live in a country that is rife with corruption and billions of dollars are faster than walking. Like anything it’s the street as a kid with my mum for a balancing act and there is a whole lot of the Mallaghan Institute and counted are diverted from healthcare, education and the justice system into back pockets. It is not grey. What I do know is that we, as a society, it all at the end of the day – with can certainly improve and strive for better supervision! To a young kid that surprising that people can hold such extreme views when they are not given the necessary outcomes and when we do mess up, get up was a big deal, and heaps of coins. and try again (myself included). I remember thinking that whoever basics that would enable them to thrive. motif.world was going to receive this bounty would It is very easy to disassociate and dehumanise have a decent supply of gobstoppers. people’s actions when they are hidden behind GOOD WORK Julian Moller

The best thing about my job is the freedom; work spare time. As anyone with an interest in computers can definitely be a chore if you aren’t having fun. will relate to, you become the go-to-guy for all things I realised while I was studying that I really enjoyed tech for everyone you know – and everyone they building websites and that I didn’t want to work for know too. I met Pat over a beer and he was after a ‘the man’ – I wasn’t keen on being another cog in hand (simple at first, that’s how they get ya). the machine. While everyone was out chasing jobs He’s a good sort, doing good things so I was happy after uni I was making websites for the guy down the to get involved. road, then eventually I was earning enough to live on, meeting great people along the way and here I am! I’ve been working with the One Percent crew over the last year or so, geeking it up in my evenings and 1000minds is a decision-making software company, weekends. Initially, it was to help them sharpen up based across Dunedin and Wellington. We aim to help their new donor enrolment process, now the main people break down big problems into smaller ones, goal is to streamline the day-to-day running of things to make good decisions with a solid scientific method by creating their very own web app. The plan is to behind it. There are four of us: three geeks and one make the ‘boring’ stuff like donation recording, economist. We try to only work on the stuff that donor changes, receipts, reporting and processing we want to, everyone gets a say and we’re all valued as automated as possible, so that the team can better equally. As a company we try to remember that we’re spend their time and energies growing the Collective. Julian Moller is a self-proclaimed nerd and known here at doing the job so we can get paid and enjoy life – not at the expense of it. One Percent Collective is truly awesome, and it’s One Percent as ‘The Wizard’. From Opoho, Dunedin, Julian grew up a good feeling to be a part of it – a good bunch of exploring the ’burbs with his brothers, building huts in the bush We work with organisations and researchers of all people supporting a great bunch of charities. and playing touch down at the local park. Nowadays, he works his sorts to help them save money, be fairer, be faster magic as a programmer and developer at 1000minds, dabbles in a or more efficient. It’s an awesome environment to If I had to offer up some bit of craft beer brewing with his mates (they’ve called themselves work in and because we’re only a small team we are challenged daily. Somedays you have to fill multiple words of wisdom, don’t 1000Brews – shout out to the Occasional Brewer) and is our roles: there’s no sales person that’s gonna go meet much-valued volunteer tech support wiz. a client for you or work on a collaboration with be too serious, I reckon. another company, which at times can push you out Words by Jd Nodder. Image by Pat Shepherd. of your comfort zone, but once you’ve had a crack Let’s make the world a bit fairer, with a bit less hate you’re only more confident going forward. and treat everyone as humans. One of the things my parents taught me when I was 1000minds.com younger was to help others, so I guess I feel quite lucky that I can do that through my job and in my BE ValueOPEN one Words by Jo Cribb Illustration by Natasha Vermeulen

I recently lead a session with an amazing group Many women I have spoken to are particularly of women who were fired up to make a difference worried about speaking up. They are rightly sensitive in their organisation for other women. In doing to the potential ramifications and labels that can so they knew they could improve the culture for come from doing so. everyone, and their organisation would be much more successful. But we had to have a serious tactical So I suggest men ask, as well as women, and that we conversation. If they went too hard, they would ask in groups, or through others (managers or union potentially get ignored. If they weren’t bold enough, reps), or use humour. That we ask on behalf of our they would potentially get – well – ignored. mums, sisters, daughters, partners and friends. I think about the act of asking like it is micro- This is the tightrope I feel volunteering. It’s about a short, sharp action we collectively do to generate change. It’s a small gift of like I walk most days. time to help generate the societal change we all want. Not always that well. It’s hard to hear someone If we all took the five minutes to have what could screaming at you. It’s hard to hear someone who is be an uncomfortable discussion with our employer, silent. Being able to effectively communicate and we could change the dial on this issue. Our employers influence change lies somewhere in the middle. would need to answer and the conversation would begin on how to fix the gap. Once they know they It was silence that was the driver behind my recent have a gap, they will put plans in place to address TED Talk on closing the gender pay gap. One of the the gap. Over time, they would expect to be asked. reasons the gender pay gap continues to exist is Questioning your employer whether they had a that it lives in our silence and our uncomfortable gender pay gap would be standard practice at a job relationship with our salaries. We don’t like to talk interview. Smart organisations will put their gap about money. While the statistics show there is a (or lack of) out there for potential employees and gender pay gap that hasn’t changed much in the last their customers to see. decade, individually many of us don’t know if we are paid fairly. And many organisations don’t know if But to get this impact, it is something we all need to they have a gender pay gap or not. ask for. Imagine what else we could change if we got organised and all took the five minute challenge every So what if we were brave, and asked our employers so often to be brave and speak up? – hey, are women paid the same as men here? Jo Cribb’s portfolio includes working for gender Our employers would need to answer (many would equality, building the capability of the NGO sector need to do the sums first in order to be able to and improving literacy rates. She holds a number of answer). Sounds simple, ah? But how many of us are directorships, runs her own consultancy and coaching prepared to ask? It is pretty hard. business and leads an NGO. BE HUMANValue two Words by Lemalu, Sia Toomaga of DCM Illustration by Natasha Vermeulen

My name is Lemalu, Sia Toomaga, and I am hope, and as he becomes more settled, both this man Samoan born. and his children are lifted up (te hāpai), as am I. So many people like our taumai are in prison, in To be human is to be on psych wards or in the grave. I am in a privileged place where I can be part of something significant, a journey – in Samoan, something that creates change. But this change happens in partnership with our taumai: tuku atu, faigamalaga. tuku mai. In Samoan we say, tu’u atu, tu’u mai: we do A journey to discover your own kaupapa, and to find it together. ways to live it out. At DCM, we talk about picking As humans, we all have a kaupapa, a set of values up the paddle – ki te hoe. For me, that’s a journey that define us; it can take a while to discover your to becoming and to being my best self. We call the own kaupapa. To be able to work at a place where people we work with taumai, meaning ‘to settle’. the kaupapa is totally in sync with your own is very You could say that to be human is to be on a journey special. I have worked at other places that ‘talk the to a place where you are settled, where your wairua talk’, but here at DCM we ‘walk the walk’. Just as we (in Samoan, agaga) is settled. ask our taumai to do, we reflect, we change. When you are part of a team at a place like DCM, I especially love the way we lift up Māori, welcome you not only get to create something beautiful with Māori, are led by Māori. Our team is diverse, just as taumai, but to learn more about yourself: who you our taumai are diverse. More and more of our taumai are, why you are, how you see the world and the are coming out as Pasifika, chatting to me about that people around you. To be ‘somebody’ is not to have part of who they are. letters beside your name, a smart home or lots of Yes, what I love most is that we manaaki everyone, money. Let me tell you about a ‘somebody’ we are we live it out here at DCM – and that’s not only true working with. He is a father; he was homeless, to DCM’s kaupapa, but true to how I want to be as a sleeping in a dry, warm space under a rock down human. If I had to boil it all down to a single word, on the waterfront. But wherever I encounter him it would be aroha. That’s my kaupapa, that’s DCM’s he is intact, whole. He is valued – wherever he is kaupapa. To give and receive aroha – that is what it at, wherever he lives, however rich or poor he is. is to be human. This man is now housed; he has reflected and is committed to change. He has learned what he needs DCM are an incredibly important part of the Wellington to do to sustain a tenancy, he is prepared to give community. You can support their work with your 1% rehab another go and he wants to do the right thing at onepercentcollective.org for himself and his children. He has not given up BE ValueREAL three As told to Jeremy Hansen by Hemana Illustration by Natasha Vermeulen

I know what it’s like to be real down, what it’s like to the person. You have tinana – physical health, be at the bottom. I was kicked out of two schools; wairua – spiritual health, hinengaro – mental/ I was a little shit, real loud. I used to jump up and emotional health and whānau – family health. I was down every day, screaming with my mates. taught that if you keep them all balanced it makes you more of a balanced person. You have to work The first school I was kicked out of was Ngā Tapuwae. to keep your walls up. Like going for a run every I was just being an idiot with my friends – we smoked day, spending time with your family, or friends you weed outside of school and went onto the school consider family, and doing things that make you grounds under the influence. I regret doing that, happy. Like going to the water, to go look at it, the I loved that school. It changed me in a sad way. ocean. That’s my mental thing. My wairua. I had schoolmates that were actually like family. Something that I’m still working on is being After that, I went to James Cook. I hated that school. connected back to my culture. We don’t go to our I got bullied every day and used to hang with the marae much and I feel the need to be under Dad’s smokers. I was there for, like, two terms. Guy Fawkes wing to go there. I disconnected from my culture came up and I made a bad decision: I went and bought after I got kicked out of Ngā Tapuwae. Now, I’m fireworks with my mates in Manurewa, and I set learning about my iwi history. This year I’m going them off at school, chucking them around. I chucked to Te Wānanga o Aotearoa for performing arts. some at this classroom I didn’t like because I hated I’m hoping to learn more about kapa haka. And I have the teachers there; I felt bullied by them. I don’t really an internship at Allpress on Fridays: I pack coffee up regret doing that. and put it in boxes for it to get shipped away. I got kicked out of James Cook and I didn’t know Some kids – especially the sensitive kids – just feel what to do. The government caught up with me and lost. They need NRT to help them find a path again. I had to go to alternative education. When I was I used to talk down on myself, sometimes I still do. there one of my tutors introduced me to Ngā But now I’m happy with what I’ve got. I don’t really Rangatahi Toa (NRT). I didn’t know much about see it as support, I see it as a relationship. NRT are them – just that they were a creative arts programme. loving, kind, good people in general. I think I would The first day was cool as. Huia picked me and two still be in that sad headspace without them. I was of my mates up. We went to laser tag and met other ruined. They’ve just taught me a lot about life – a kids like us. We ate. I loved the positivity Huia and lot. It makes you appreciate things in life, and the Jess shared with us. After that I knew I wanted to do good things you have going on. I just love these something with NRT. NRT felt more like my happy relationships and I cherish them. place than the course. Hemana talks about how working with Ngā Rangatahi It was just learning the good shit about life, Toa helped him find a path again. You can support their like about conflict resolution. One thing we learnt mahi with your 1% at onepercentcollective.org about was ‘te whare tapa whā’ – the four walls of you, Thank you

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What is happiness? A perfect sunset? A mansion on the hill? A dog walking on its hind legs? It’s the question that lingers in our minds when we consider which job to take, what to have for lunch and the sort of person we should spend the rest of our lives with. But do any of us have the answer? Sigmund Freud was not convinced and insisted that ‘the pursuit of happiness is a doomed quest.’ Fortunately, it seems that few of us agree. Words by Telford Mills. Illustration by Cracked Ink.

Amazon boasts over 2,000 books on the search cello or watching the All Blacks win the World for happiness and countless websites offer Cup (again). Chances are these things may supplements that will boost your mood for a not be happiness for other people (especially small pile of cash. On our search for answers, Australians). Instead, happiness might be a night I had a chat with Dr Tony Fernando, a out with the boys or managing to fit into your psychiatrist and senior lecturer at the favourite jeans. It might be playing with a baby University of Auckland. Dr Fernando has spent kitten or canoeing down a rapid river. The point years studying what makes us tick and, more is, it’s different for everyone. specifically, what makes us tick happily. He has delivered a number of papers on the science of Dr Fernando believes there are three types of happiness and has recently become one of the happiness, each with their own evolutionary world’s leading experts on compassion. practise. The first type focuses on calm and Clearly, we had to pick this guy’s brain. contentment. You’re likely to experience this slipping into a hot bath after a long day, Dr Fernando answers my first question with watching Netflix on the couch or tucking into a full-bellied laugh. ‘What is happiness? a delicious meal. It’s the reason we do yoga, Boy, that’s a complicated one.’ For the average the reason we have a glass of wine with dinner person, he explains, happiness is a type of or treat ourselves to a massage. It settles us, positive emotional state that causes a feeling it makes us relaxed. This kind of happiness is of exhilaration or accomplishment. For Dr essential for a healthy lifestyle and can often Fernando, this might be delivering a good recharge us when other things are not going lecture, playing his favourite piece on the so smoothly. The second type of happiness can be trickier. them changed their concept of happiness, especially The final prong focuses on compassion. ‘When you This one focuses on excitement and pleasure; the those who were career-minded,’ Dr Fernando said. ‘A learn to see that people are all the same, you’ll be dopamine-filled rush we get from trying something lot of accomplishments are related to the self. On a far happier person,’ Dr Fernando tells me. new and exciting, or from indulging our vices. your deathbed, maybe this does not matter.’ You might notice this feeling when you spend three With all this in mind, I asked Dr Fernando if he could ‘We all want to be safe, hundred bucks on a new jacket, mountain bike down offer any quick tips to become happier, truly happier, a crazy steep hill or when you turn up to a party with on a day-to-day basis. Again, he laughed, and began to be loved, to have three your dancing shoes at the ready. These pleasure talking about a three-pronged approach he has been receptors are extremely powerful but if you rely on cultivating for some time. meals a day.’ them as your primary source of happiness, you will So, the next time your co-worker starts in about probably be disappointed. The happiness created The first prong involves developing an attitude of his cat for the umpteenth time, take a moment to by the excitement circuit is both unsustainable and gratitude. ‘We have a natural tendency to look at remember that he is a person with hopes and dreams addictive; a real problem in the Western world where what we don’t have,’ Dr Fernando says. ‘This has similar to yours, who is probably trying his best success and status are so often valued above all else. obvious repercussions for our happiness.’ The good to get through the day. It’ll take a bit of work, news is, developing a more grateful attitude can be The third, and most important type of happiness, but reshaping your attitude can have effects that pretty easy. ‘Writing down three things to be grateful last a lifetime. focuses on connection and compassion. This is the for everyday can make a huge difference. Anyone can feeling you get when you receive a birthday card do it and everyone should.’ To show how easy this is, ‘It’s unrealistic to have a goal of being perpetually from your grandma, or when you laugh yourself sick I have included my three things below: happy,’ Dr Fernando told me as we finished up. with your best friend. It’s when your dog jumps with ‘You have to be unhappy once in a while.’ It’s a long, joy as you walk in the door or when your girlfriend 1. Having a job that enables me to learn new hard road but by keeping your mind open, practising kisses you, just because she can. The reason is things every day gratitude and understanding the importance of simple: people are happier when they feel connected. 2. The amount of books in the Wellington connection and compassion, there’s a good chance Our need to connect is genetically hardwired into City Library that the road will become brighter, grassier and filled us, an ‘altruistic circuitry’ if you will. Unlike the 3. Spaghetti with birdsong. And if things go really well, you might pleasure circuit, happiness through connection is even forget you’re on quest and stop and look around. both sustainable and can be internally reignited. The second prong focuses on mindfulness. ‘We are social creatures,’ says Dr Fernando, ‘you This, Dr Fernando warns me, is trickier: mindfulness Dr Fernando trained in medicine in the Philippines can be the wealthiest man in the world but if you allows us to see what is happening inside our own before completing his psychiatry studies in New York and Pennsylvania. In 2015, he was awarded the are disconnected, you'll be constantly looking for head. Our mind is constantly being hijacked by New Zealand Medical Award (NZMA) for his inspiring a way to put an end to your disconnection, your negative thoughts and if we can make ourselves and pioneering work in medical compassion. unhappiness.’ In 2014, Dr Fernando interviewed aware of this, we have the choice of overriding it. He currently teaches at the University of Auckland. a number of palliative care patients in Auckland The benefits are many and far reaching but hospitals. A key question they were asked was, ‘What Dr Fernando warns that it can take a lot of work are you truly thankful for?’. Each and every one, to achieve. ‘You can know a lot about mindfulness, regardless of age, talked about connection: with but without practise it doesn’t result in much.’ family, friends, partners and pets. ‘A fair number of MEET JOE BLOGGS

Joe walks down the street, his smile wide. He gets a takeaway coffee – flat white with one sugar – from his local café. At the supermarket, he gets a muffin – complete with plastic knife and butter – a bag of cashews and a bottle of water. That’s brekkie and morning tea sorted. For lunch, Joe picks up an $11 Indian lunch special with rice and extra papadums. There’s a whole bunch of plastic cutlery in there, but who can be bothered dealing with the office dishwasher? Words and modelling by Telford Mills. Images by Pat Shepherd.

Joe Bloggs may be a tidy Kiwi, but ‘tidy’ is not the who enjoys a plate of sashimi. Then, there are plastic kind of Kiwi that New Zealand needs right now. bags. A single plastic bag can break down into over It’s fine to keep rubbish off the streets, but the real a million bits of microplastic, each bit toxic. Almost problem is the amount of plastic being used and half of the world’s seabirds are said to have ingested thrown away on a daily basis. Let’s have a look plastic, and the numbers look only to be going up. then, at some of the very real facts about single use plastics (or SUPs). Joe would be horrified to learn, Did you know that New Zealanders go through for example, that of the 322 metric tonnes of plastic around 295 million takeaway coffee cups a year, produced each year worldwide, only 14 percent are almost of all which end up in landfills? Even coffee recycled. Or that every year, New Zealanders go cups with disposable lids, made from plant-based through enough plastic bottles to fill 700 jumbo jets. materials like corn starch, pose a problem. Although these lids are technically compostable, SUPs are everywhere. Check out Joe’s bag of cashews, there is little information for consumers about what his plastic knife and butter, his Indian takeaways. to do with them, or about the difference between Each of these items will end up in landfills or, worse recycling and composting in general. As a result, still, the sea, where they will stick around for up to a most of these lids also end up in landfills, where they thousand years. That’s a really long time. And despite release a concerning amount of methane. the common misconception that SUPs are only found on the ocean’s surface, plastics have been found SUPs can also have severe health concerns for 10 kilometres below the surface. It’s estimated that humans. Microplastic waste is very good at soaking by the year 2050, there will be more plastic in the up harmful toxins that are in the ocean. Many of oceans than fish by weight; not great news for anyone these toxins are endocrine disruptors – chemicals that interfere with hormone functions. For the problem was the single biggest subject school fish that eat theses microplastics, this can mean children wrote to her about, holding up a stack of the stunted growth and serious reproductive challenges. childrens' letters to show just how many impassioned Endocrine disruptors can also cause problems young people have had their say. higher up the food chain, with fish-eating humans susceptible to issues including birth defects and The announcement was supported by Sustainable increased risk of cancer. Although research in this Coastlines. ‘Today marks a big victory for the people area is still relatively new, things aren’t looking good. of Aotearoa and for the places we love,’ stated co- founder Camden Howitt. ‘It shows us how strong our So, what is the solution to all of this? How can we voices are, no matter how old or young. It shows that make a change that lasts a lifetime? It all starts with if we stand up for our values, our leaders will listen.’ people. ‘The most important thing is to increase The announcement will help to remove around 750 people’s awareness about the critical issues involved,’ million plastic bags each year from New Zealand’s says Trisia Farrelly, environmental anthropologist waste stream and environment; the equivalent of and co-director of Massey University’s Political 154 bags per person. Ecology Research Centre. ‘Only when citizens know and are concerned, pushing local and central government to make significant changes, will things In the meantime, begin to look up. By knowing what to do and why remember that every they’re doing it, things have the potential to change PM Jacinda Ardern and Associate Environment Minister Eugenie Sage celebrate the announcement very quickly.’ little bit counts. by joining the kids for a beach clean-up. Luckily for us, New Zealand has plenty of people Instead of grabbing a takeaway coffee on the way doing the right thing. Our wonderful partner charity to work, why not leave home five minutes earlier Sustainable Coastlines organise regular beach clean- and enjoy one at your favourite café or simply carry ups around New Zealand, provide education to stop a KeepCup in your bag or leave one on your desk? litter at its source, and support others to spread this Ditch the plastic drink bottles and get a stainless steel work far and wide. So far, Sustainable Coastlines and insulated bottle; it’ll keep your water cool and you its growing network of ambassadors have removed even cooler. Pick up your own Tupperware container, nearly 1.5 million litres of rubbish from New Zealand say no to plastic cutlery when you’ve got the real stuff beaches. Not too shabby at all. Well, actually, quite at home, Honeywrap your sandwiches and don’t shabby for a country that prides itself on being clean accept every bag the checkout operators throw your and green. way. It’s okay to say no. In early August, Prime Minster Jacinda Ardern Keep informed, be interested, ask questions and and Associate Environment Minister Eugenie Sage never underestimate the power of suggestion in your announced that single use plastic shopping bags workplace or with that one unsustainable mate in will be phased out of New Zealand over the next your group that seems to insist coffee tastes better twelve months. ‘Just like climate change, we’re taking from the takeaway cup. And when you see your old meaningful steps to reduce plastics pollution so friend Joe Bloggs around the office, put your arm we don't pass this problem to future generations,’ around his shoulder and tell him a couple of things. Jacinda Ardern said. This, alongside a petition Being tidy is good, but being responsible is better. signed by 65,000 New Zealanders to ban plastic Supporting Sustainable Coastlines with a regular bags outright, illustrates the huge amount of donation means they can educate thousands more public support behind the government’s decision. Kiwi kids each year. Slap your jandals on and give Ms Ardern also stated that solving our plastic your 1% at onepercentcollective.org MIKE & MANDY Behind the scenes

Have you ever wondered just how easy it really is to give 1%? Well we pitched a video brief to global boutique production company Sweetshop, theyDr Max sent Berry it out is to devoted their directors to helping and give the preterm incredible babies Louis better Sutherland outcomes. came Her backlegion with of tiny this patients gem of a and script their called parents ‘Mike are & rightMandy’. alongside This pro-bono her. video campaignIf only the blewgrown-ups our minds! holding Here’s the apurse wee sneakystrings lookwould behind-the-scenes understand… withWords director by Lee-Anne and Duncan fellow and Wellingtonian, Images from The Neonatal Louis Sutherland. Trust Interview by Kate Neill. Images by Pat Shepherd.

What did you first think when you read the brief from One Percent Collective? I’ve spent the last few years making commercials in between my films, so I loved the opportunity to write and create some work for a caring cause with a pretty open brief. The whole process was refreshing. Having heard about the One Percent Collective team, I knew they would come into the project full of trust too, and if they liked the idea, they’d let me make it. I wanted to make something fun, that didn’t take itself too seriously, and was maybe a bit more irreverent than what you typically see.

How did you come up with the characters of Mike & Mandy and how did you cast? The concept came about when I was overseas in the US visiting a group of friends. They’re a cool mishmash of people: a birth doula, graphic designer, and my US producer. Kicking around ideas, I asked them, ‘What’s interesting about this whole One Percent thing?’ After a few completely un-shootable ideas, the notion of, ‘Everyone is raised with the aim of putting 100% into everything they do. Imagine a story about someone who was happy giving just 1% in life.’ That idea floated to the top, and Mike & Mandy was born. I then called another mate, Naz Nazli, a creative/copywriter based in London. We’d worked together in the past and had planned to write something a bit different, so this fit the bill. Naz was key as he really looked after putting everything into the key messaging. While we in the US bounced ideas around what a 1% life could done, we could focus on what we were doing, and look like, Naz worked across the campaign aims that freed up the creative flow and allowed us to and structure with me as we passed the script back move efficiently and quickly. and forth over timelines. It worked out to be a nice balance of crazy vs. craft, and of course, like any What did you want to make the audience feel with collaboration, the lines blurred as to who did what the video? while it all came together. For me, just presenting the audience with the need for donations wasn’t enough, as we all become numb So Mike & Mandy grew into this nice, albeit little bit or desensitised to those types of campaigns. But my odd love story. It was a lot of fun not having loads hope was that if people smiled while still pondering of people looking over our shoulders, and the One the bigger question, we could be effective in a Percent team and Pat Shepherd kept loving what we humorous and oddly refreshing way. This film serves were offering up through the development process. as not just a way of giving support, it’s also a great Casting was more of a challenge, even more so way of introducing One Percent Collective. Ideally than usual, because actors are at a premium in this is a way to grow the brand and help it become an New Zealand at the moment. For many, commercials organisation that will be remembered fondly by the are their bread and butter, so being asked to put viewers. I hope instead of people feeling burdened by their face on a campaign for love and very little the ask, they’ll feel empowered that just by doing a money was a bit to ask. The Reel World team pulled little they can participate in a whole lot of good. out all the stops in getting people in the room, but ultimately I didn’t feel we had seen the right mix What were the trickiest components during of heart and humour to carry our story. I suddenly the creation of this campaign and how did you found myself stalking my Facebook friends at the overcome them? 11th hour. Ultimately, the lead role of Mike went to Casting was the toughest. That’s not unusual for any Guy Capper who ended up being perfect for the production, but it felt more acute here. We all didn’t role, as was Natasha playing Mandy. It’s never easy want to make a broad comedy spot. Mike couldn’t going buck-naked on set, but they not only braved be too odd looking, and we agreed we didn’t want this but gave performances that filled the film with someone to feel one-note or a sad-sack loser. It can a tactile warmth. be a slippery slope to go this way and can take away the integrity of your character and therefore story. What were the shoot days like for you? We wanted Mike to be more of a forgotten second Shoots are always different as there are shifting cousin type. dynamics and demands that I’m constantly fielding. But, we had bugger all auditions come in for the There’s something special about getting everybody main role. That was hard given our expectations of on board for a good cause though. Everyone just the quality of actor we were looking for. As I said, I pitches in which creates a lovely energy throughout started sweating it and ended up hassling some the set. Whenever there was space that needed filling, mates on Facebook. Guy eventually came in as a someone leapt into it. Melissa from Sweetshop’s favour, and he’d already heard about One Percent accounts department played our mother giving Collective so he was keen to help. A fresh face and not birth, Pat took on the role of a banana, and our 1st on anyone’s books he nailed the pitch of performance AD Shorty played an old fella having a heart attack first take. Guy’s a full-on super intellectual artist and in a gym. Everyone put their hand up to help, even when I put him in scenes without initial direction, I moreso than usual. ended up making a small tweak here and there to get From a production point of view, it was great having what we needed. When matched up with the talented Pat on board. He was fully trusting and I didn’t have Natasha, the pair were just absolute gold together! to discuss things too much. This allowed us to charge Check the video out at onepercentcollective.org forward. Instead of sweating about what we’ve just UNF CK THE WORLD OVER A CUPPA TEA

In true Kiwi fashion, over a hot cup of tea, we sat down with two of New Zealand’s most fascinating people to discuss the state of the world around us, what the future looks like and what matters most. Melissa Clark-Reynolds (ONZM) is a digital strategist, technological entrepreneur and Future 50 donor of ours. Sarah Longbottom (MNZM) is the founder and former executive director of Ngā Rangatahi Toa. Smart, successful and more than a little bit rock ‘n’ roll, Melissa and Sarah share with us four key areas to help unf ck the world. Interview by Telford Mills. Images by Pat Shepherd.

a great time now in New Zealand, with Jacinda at CREATI VIT Y the helm. I feel this ground swell of connection and Sarah: Creativity is what is missing in our world. It is hope. I think education in New Zealand really has to the panacea for all the disconnect we see around us get behind that; we’re going to need a lot of creative and the process by which all humans can look within thinking in the next generation. A large part of what themselves. People seem to associate creativeness we do at Ngā Rangatahi Toa is getting young people exclusively with ‘the arts’ which is dangerous really, into that creative headspace and you know what? because creativity is everywhere. It really works. Melissa: That’s so true. My dad said I was the least Melissa: I work as a futurist and lately I’ve been creative of his children and I said, ‘Dad, I create big making a list of sci-fi books that all people interested organisations. I see the future and then I go make it.’ in the future should read. There is a lot of interest at Being an entrepreneur is the most creative thing I the moment in dystopian futures because there are could ever do in my life. so many possibilities. Creativity really allows us to imagine the futures we want and don’t want, and to Sarah: In this fast-paced world that we live in, there have a conversation about them. And anything we often isn’t enough time or space to think creatively. can imagine, we can make. We need to make sure that creativity isn’t stamped out of us at school and is in fact seen as the most important part of what makes us human. I think it’s TECHNOLOGY who has worked with 19,000 kids in Mexico helping them to rebuild their cities in Minecraft. We’re going Melissa: I’ve got a lot of great stuff to say about out to Tawa later in the year – every school in Tawa ‘However, I think humans have an innate need social media; I’ve never been less lonely in my has signed up – and these kids are going to redesign to connect and technology ultimately helps us life. I think it’s because it’s so easy for me to live Tawa in Minecraft as they would like it to be. And the in a community of people who want to discuss the Wellington City Council has agreed to put it into their with that. I know my life is the richer for it.’ things I’m interested in. Today for example, I was master plan. This gives these kids a sense of agency. having a conversation on Twitter about Air New It may be a tiny thing but next time one of them Zealand serving plant-based meat (the controversial walks down the street in Tawa and sees a bench in the Impossible Burger), with people I’ve never met but perfect sunny spot, they will know they put it there. who I consider friends. In the old days, I would have The great thing about agency is that it gives you hope. just walked down Lambton Quay talking to myself. You may not always do the right thing but it does Of course, there’s the other side too; cyberbullying make you feel a lot more hopeful. is a terrible thing. However, I think humans have an innate need to connect and technology ultimately helps us with that. I know my life is the richer for it. L OVE Sarah: I’m not on any social media. Not everyone Melissa: I’ve been talking to thousands of farmers utilises technology in the same way and I’ve always over the last year about love. I believe food is an been told I wasn’t a ‘technical’ person. However, expression of love; I love my family and one of the I did this ‘Technology for non tech’ course through ways I show them this is by feeding them. And if food Dev Academy last year and once it was done, I is going to be an expression of love for me then I want rang my brother and said, ‘we’re going to start a to know that the food I give them was produced with technology company. Technology is amazing.’ I felt love, and this includes love for the environment. If like I’d been living in a house and I’d opened a door we think of New Zealand as being a food-producing to a whole other wing I didn’t know was there. It’s nation, then every bit of farming we do needs to be really hard wrapping your brain around something done with love. amorphous like the internet, but it’s exciting too. Technology as a thought process or a way to see the This is a great example of how our expression of world; that I love. Once again, it all comes back to love is who we want to be in the world. It’s in every creativity. purchasing decision, it’s what we put in our bodies. I want to be expressing love through the clothes that I wear, through my New Zealand-made pants, through EN VIRONMENT the shampoo I use every morning. That’s all part of love for me. Love is a doing not a feeling. And if it’s a Sarah: The core thing is to be aware of doing, it’s in everything. interconnectedness. We are not only connected to nature but to each other. There is no ‘here’ Sarah: Love is a word that has been appropriated and ‘there,’ there is only ‘us’ and ‘now.’ It’s so and mass-commercialised, and its meaning important to make our young people feel like has kind of been lost. For me, it’s really about they have something to contribute. Young people interconnectedness. Love can’t be concentrated to ‘I have all the answers, they are the now. Having love you and you and that’s it.’ Love is a way of doing that understanding for the next generation is so and being in the world and it speaks much more important. It’s about leading from the side and deeply to our similarities than our differences. letting young people move to the front. We’re all hungry for connection, whatever form it What does unf cking the world mean to you? We’d takes. This desire to connect is in every human being. love to hear about inspiring projects or businesses Melissa: I couldn’t agree more. I’m currently working That’s love. Even though the world is pretty f cked you are involved in or inspired by. Email us on on a project where we’re bringing out an architect up, I think it’s still really beautiful. [email protected] to tell us more! At Sustainable Coastlines, ‘enabling people to look Kai. It’s something we need everyday, and yet it's after the place that they love’ is our mission. Enabling easy to forget that even in New Zealand a significant takes many forms. Sure, it’s great to organise a big number of people can’t afford it. Not only is it event from conception to execution to Instagram essential for survival, it can be a bridge to help people avalanche, but it’s the subtle processes that give us in other ways. Kai can be a conversation starter for the greatest daily satisfaction. We enable through a counsellor working with vulnerable youth, or a collaboration: making or sharing events for a way to create social interaction with people feeling community group who aren't comfortable with social isolated. Kai can be a tool to help former refugees media; connecting a restoration team with their connect to their new communities, or a means of local school; handing out gloves and bags; calling support for those struggling with addiction. Each day, the council to pick up rubbish; or finding trees for a at Kaibosh we see how the power of kai rescue and teacher who is looking for ways to get their students redistribution goes far beyond physical nourishment. planting. Sometimes it’s just a phone call, an email, a It’s a wonderful thing. cup of tea or putting great people in touch with other great people. Communicating leads to enabling in this tiny village we call Aotearoa.

At The Neonatal Trust, support can mean a whole bunch of things while also meaning everything. Support is making sure someone’s baby gets the absolute best care possible. Support At UpsideDowns, we understand the difference is making someone laugh when they having a voice can make. It is something many of us are going through something deeply take for granted – being able to communicate our difficult. Support is explaining needs, desires, feelings and personalities. Voice can something complicated in a calm, mean the words and language we use, but also the kind way. Support is letting someone power and confidence to represent ourselves in the cry on your shoulder. Support is world, to make ourselves heard in our whānau and getting someone a coffee with milk our communities. Having a voice is something that and two sugars after a long night in doesn’t come as easily to kids with Down syndrome. the waiting room. Support is being Without specialist help, many of our kids might never on the other end of the phone when We asked each of our partner charities for one be able to find theirs. People with Down syndrome someone needs to talk. Support is making something hard a little bit word that resonates closely with the work they do. have so much to say, and we all have so much to gain by being able to hear their voices. At UpsideDowns, easier. Support is everything. we’re here to help people find theirs. Design by Amane & Me Without our health, we have nothing. It is the number Imagine; that’s something we do a lot at Inspiring At Ngā Rangatahi Toa we believe that deep one thing we need before we can engage in anything Stories. Imagine a world where women were not connection is essential for us all to thrive. else. In New Zealand, we’re fortunate to have a allowed to vote because of their gender. Crazy Connection, for us, is bringing our best selves, so we health system that is accessible to everyone. Our right?! Way back in the day that was normal. A can connect into our creative selves and our learning neighbours in the Asia-Pacific region are not so lucky. small and courageous group of people decided to selves. One does not exist in isolation to the other. In places like Fiji, Pakistan, Nepal and the Solomon step up and do something about it. They rallied When we can be vulnerable and held safely, creativity Islands access to even the most basic healthcare is a together, mobilised the community and, 125 years unlocks our learning. When we learn from this space, challenge. It’s an unacceptable social injustice that ago, a petition was presented to Parliament that we care for each other. When we care for each other, we want to change. Take My Hands strive to reduce gave women the right to vote. New Zealand became Tuku Atu Tuku Mai – giving and receiving. At DCM, we aspire to be more – together. the medical inequity that exists in the Asia-Pacific the first country in the world to do so. Talk about an we are committed to the spirit and practice of region and improve the health of as many people as inspiring story! How might we build a more inclusive, generosity and reciprocity, supporting taumai to we can. After that, the sky’s the limit. equal and sustainable future? What could the next enhance their own mana. 125 years look like?! Just imagine. We tell taumai that we have a waka ready, and that we You can share one regular donation between as many will journey with them – to sustainable housing and of our partner charities as you like. We pass on 100% greater wellbeing. However, if we pick up the paddle of your donations, share stories with you and simply (ki te hoe) and they do not, the waka will not go provide one donation receipt at the end of the tax forward. Rather it will go around in circles. We are in year. It's never been easier to support these amazing causes with your 1%. this together; we do this together. A commitment to Tuku Atu Tuku Mai recognises Nurturing is ‘to take care of, to feed, to protect and that being able to contribute enhances the mana of to help develop’ and is at the heart of everything At Garden to Table, we see growing food from a seed each of us. When we all work together, everyone can Bellyful does. Across the country, our volunteers as a magical process. With a few simple elements journey forward and thrive. nurture our meals: cheese sauce is stirred carefully, (soil, water, sun, nutrients) and some tender loving lasagne sheets are laid with love and freezer care, the tiny seed germinates and starts to become a temperatures are strictly controlled. We constantly plant. Through gardening, children can learn how to nurture our branches and our wonderful volunteers nurture. If the seed does not germinate, or the plant to help them grow and develop both individually does not thrive, we don’t blame the plant but look to and as a team. Most importantly, Bellyful nurtures discover what is lacking. Perhaps the soil is depleted, Defending means to protect from harm or danger. the community by feeding families struggling with or the seed is not getting enough sun or water. For the hundreds of thousands of children from illnesses and with newborn babies, and by feeding Children at Garden to Table are taught to grow and Burma living in extreme poverty, harm or danger connections between the community and other nurture individual plants and to give them the care takes many forms. Exposure to both drug and human organisations. Nurturing takes a lot of work and a lot they need. Once the plant has given off its goodness trafficking, land mines, disease and conflict are of heart, but here at Bellyful, it’s so, so worth it. and the kai is harvested, children learn how to grow constant threats. With absolutely no social safety net, and nurture themselves and others by turning it into there is a limited supply of food, shelter is very basic delicious food for all to share. What’s not to love and education opportunities are often non-existent. about that? SpinningTop works with local communities helping build and run education and agriculture projects – defending the basic rights of these children. COVER ARTIST I grew up in Blackburn, about an hour outside If you take some time to sit down by the of Manchester. I met a Kiwi girl and came main street of a town, you’ll see inspiration here to meet her family. That was 14 years ago all around you. and I’ve been an honorary Kiwi ever since. I’m stoked to be a part of this Generosity I’ve always loved graffiti and when I moved Journal. I feel like the things that help me over to New Zealand, my work started to most with a project like this is thinking of take on a new direction. There’s definitely a words that resonate with helping people, twisted and slightly disturbed feeling to the then being present in the moment of creation. characters that inspired my name: cracked This helps me get into a flow and lets the up, off-centre, slightly loopy and a little bit process happen organically, free from any lost. Every piece I do on the street starts in preconceived ideas. my sketch book in ink, hence, Cracked Ink. I’ve been a massive cartoon and animation You will mostly find me painting on the walls fan all my life. So when we started this of any community throughout the country. project, I was super excited to learn my I love painting in public spaces because I love characters would be coming to life and after the freedom it offers. There’s no restrictions seeing the amazing work Fox&Co did on Issue when you’re painting in the streets and you Four’s cover, it kinda gave me that excitement can make something that can be enjoyed by you get as a kid when your favourite cartoon a whole neighborhood. There’s something came on! I have to say they have done an really cool about that. outstanding job again, I feel very privileged that the crew at Fox&Co took my idea and Many things influence me: expression, brought it to life, it’s now got me thinking movement, noises. I like to think of all the of the potential for future projects. characters I’ve created as a family that is Thanks again team, bloody legends! constantly growing and evolving. Each of them has a human quality because they Check out Fox&Co’s cover animation video are all inspired by human expressions and at thegenerosityjournal.co.nz then go check emotions. When you see a character inspired out crackedink.com and foxandco.design for by people, it creates more emotion, whether further inspiration. you feel sorry for it or it makes you smile.

You’ll often find Cracked Ink halfway up a wall buzzing up and down in a cherry picker, doing what he loves, painting walls with his infectious _Don’t Worry, Be Happy _Unf ck The World _Ten Words We Love style. We were lucky enough to pin him down for a day in his Whanganui _Mike & Mandy studio, so he could capture the crazy collective world of his amazing B&W ink style characters. Words by Telford Mills. Main image by Yoshi Travel Films. HOW DOES IT WORK?

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