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Safe Haven Houses providing Hope
Safe Haven is dedicated to providing safe, healthy housing and support for asylum seekers arriving in Aotearoa after the trauma of fleeing from danger in their homeland. Through your generosity, we will add to our capacity to provide warmth, safety, hope, and the strength to overcome adversity. Join us in making asylum seekers welcome and cared for.
Our purpose
A warm welcome on arrival at the airport, through empathy and practical care
Those who arrive with nothing need everything. The journey ahead seems ominous. Meeting the criteria of a successful asylum application seems daunting. Our support and the stories of past success provides hope. Guidance through the application process, gaining a work visa and starting to make a new life in Aotearoa creates an opportunity. Our social workers meet with our clients and support them in their journey.
Immigration NZ has no budget to house asylum seekers. Safe Haven Housing Trust Board seeks to fill this gap. The management of the Mangere Refugee Centre refuses to accept asylum seekers. INZ's Refugee Centre only takes quota refugees, not convention refugees. Safe Haven provides safe, healthy housing, food, medical, and transport costs.
Emergency food supplies
We provide vital food supplies to asylum seekers ensuring they have access to the healthy sustenance they need. We approach food manufacturing Companies seeking their support.
Community support
We collaborate with several organizations to provide the services needed. They help provide food, and support gatherings on special occasions such as Christmas, Waitangi, Anzac Day, Matariki, and Easter.
Legal Aid Support
There are 28 legally aided lawyers in Auckland and we work together to provide the best support we can. Collecting evidence and helping refer clients to medical and psychological services is our goal.
What's happening?
Wharenui Āhuru Mōwai
The Trusts Maori name means 'a family place of safety'. The Trust has quality accommodation in Auckland City. Asylum seekers are asked to abide by our Maori values of mutual respect, and caring for one another, and respecting the Trust's property and volunteers.
Quality furnishings
Each house complies with the healthy homes standards. It is fully furnished with bedding, towels and kitchen utensils. Cleaning equipment is supplied for each asylum seeker to share in the responsibility for the care of their house
Internet services & libraries
Each house has internet services for communication with family and loved ones back home. The accommodation is reasonably close to Public Libraries where free computer, printing, and copying services are accessible.
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Our impact
Empowering lives towards residency and successful settlement outcomes
The Trust's vision and strategy is to prepare asylum seekers for the successul outcome of residency and settlement. We seek full participation in what New Zealand society can offer every asylum seeker by way of holistic development, careers and success.
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Over 220 asylum seekers have realised their aspirations for freedom and a new life free from fear. We have guided many asylum seekers through the appeal process with a very high pass rate. Only a small number had to leave NZ because they did not meet the criteria of the UN Convention on the Status of Refugees ratified by the NZ Govt in 1960.
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We have 6 governing Board members one of whom has been a successful asylum seeker and has his own architectural business. One has an MBA and is a senior person in a large business. Another is a lady who lived many years in a French speaking society and now has an asylum seeker living with her and her family.
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Houses and apartments housing 41 asylum seekers, offering groceries, meals, and essential resources. The Trust has 4 people offering boarding accommodation
95%
The aim of Safe Haven Housing Trust Board is to achieve a successful outcome for 95% of our clients. Those who do not achieve refugee status are helped to exit NZ without being deported.
Providing safe, healthy housing for asylum seekers
Safe Haven Housing Trust Board members have 37 years experience in providing support for asylum seekers. In 2019 the Trust started purchasing its own housing to secure a safe, healthy future for its clients. The Trust now has a housing supervisor and a social worker and a mental health volunteer.
Your generosity;
Our work
Caring for all, together
Safe Haven's team is committed to supporting each asylum seeker with a safe, warm, healthy house, food, medical, legal services and transport so they have
the best opportunity to succeed in their claim for asylum in Aotearoa.