The Goodlife Charitable Trust is an organisation based in Kaitaia that creates vocational opportunities for adults with intellectual disabilities. Currently, they are developing and delivering on projects that provide space and opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities to be included in the communities workforce.
On their Pukepoto Road site, the members of Goodlife have been creating a large garden area to learn key gardening skills and grow their own vegetables to take home.
Here at Northland Waste, we've partnered with Goodlife by giving them our green waste to use as compost.
The green waste we collect at our Transfer Stations across the Far North Region is collected and put in a large hook bin, which is then delivered to the Team at Goodlife. From there, it is kept in windrows, cleaned of anything inorganic, reduced to mulch and used for their garden site development.
As a result of this partnership, Goodlife Charitable Trust can employ three members of staff on a casual basis to tend to the gardens. The produce grown at the site is either taken home to be shared with family members, or they can sell it for their profit.
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