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Hikoi for Better Mental Healthcare Choices in NZ: Schedule April – May
Annie Chapman is walking the length of the north island following the Te Araroa trail to raise awareness of the need for better mental-healthcare choices in NZ. She’s on a mission to take a petition to parliament seeking improved options for people using public mental health services across the country. Across April and May she’ll stop off at a range of different towns to touch base with locals and collect signatures.
Itinerary for April and May 2013
- Taumarunui 5 April
- Whanganui 22/23 April
- Fielding 12th May
- Palmerston North 14th May
- Otaki 21st May
- Paraparaumu 24th May
- Porirua 28th May
Times and venues for Community Hikoi Meetings coming soon.
If you are interested in organising a Hikoi Meeting for your group or community contact Annie Chapman’s new volunteer Hikoi coordinator, Miriam Larsen-Barr by emailing admin@engagenz.co.nz
Keep yourself in the loop at the official Facebook event.
And don’t forget to sign and share the petition!
If you’d like to know a bit more about what this Hikoi is all about, please click here to watch a short video taken of the Hikoi Meeting in Whangarei.
Hikoi for reTHiNK of Mental-Healthcare Choices Arriving in Auckland
One Woman Walking: Hikoi for a Big reTHiNK of Mental Healthcare Choices
Annie Chapman is on a hikoi across the length of the North Island to raise awareness about the need for better mental healthcare choices to be made available to service-users in New Zealand.
“I have ceased to be surprised now by how almost everyone I talk to about why I am walking has a story to tell of friends or loved ones in need, utterly failed by the mental health system.” ~ Annie Chapman, 21 December 2012
Annie Chapman will be in Auckland from the 14th – 21st February 2013 (and in fact she may arrive a few days earlier than this).
So far the Auckland events in place are:
• Saturday morning, 16th Feb, from 10 am til 12 noon at Morra Hall, Waiheke. Note: there has been a change of venue to allow for a more formal setting. Instead of Ostend Market as originally planned, Annie Chapman will now be at Morra Hall, Oneroa, Waiheke
• A meeting on 15th February with colleagues of Brigitte Sistig re Yoga and Depression
• A second radio interview with “Take it from Us” (Feb 19)
• A screening/talk of Jim Marbrook’s film “Mental Notes” as a fund-raiser on the 17th of February at Connect SR in Glenfield.
If you have any questions or suggestions of other good possible places to meet, speak or be interviewed by media, please contact Annie direct on 027 4272644 or Hikoiforhealth@gmail.com
Find out more on the official Facebook Page
Help spread the word – invite your friends to the Facebook Event
