Our young people are amazing and brave. They are no longer in mainstream school because of behavioural issues or truanting, and are recruited from the alternative education classrooms we partner with in South Auckland. The young people involved with Ngā Rangatahi Toa have made a real commitment to changing their own lives through creativity and hard work. They don’t come to us as artists, but as young people wanting to find their voice and wanting to be heard. With us, through creativity, they learn to trust in themselves and others. They build the confidence they need to return to school, move into tertiary study or find employment.
