About Photovoice
Aim
The Children’s Commissioner aims to ensure that decision makers who can end child poverty in New Zealand hear children and young people's views and experiences. This includes politicians, policy makers and media.
What happened?
The Office of the Children’s Commissioner held a series of workshops with participating groups of children, young people, teen and young parents. After working on their descriptions of poverty, the groups went into their communities to illustrate these in some way. Some took photographs, while others drew, wrote poems, stories and lyrics, or recorded dramas. A full write-up of the project will be available soon on this site. Watch this space!
Acknowledgements
The Children's Commissioner would like to thank all of the project participants from Otahuhu, Te Puru, Paeroa, Gisborne, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Porirua and Dunedin. Their contributions have provided valuable insights into how children and young people perceive poverty and how it impacts upon them.
The commissioner would also like to thank Otahuhu Raise Up n Represent, Creative Kidz Art Club Te Puru, The Paeroa New Zealand Children's Art House, Te Aka Ora Charitable Trust, YMCA Wanganui, YMCA Palmerston North, Streets Ahead 237, Porirua Healthlinks and the Otago Youth Wellness Trust for their partnership, participation in and valuable contribution to this project. Thanks also to Kodak for donating 150 disposable cameras and JR McKenzie Trust for funding for both this project and the report, A Fair Go for all Children.
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