Connections Week 2025

Connections Week 2025 took place on July 22-24. Kaimahi from The People’s Project (TPP) and volunteers visited places in Hamilton where people are known to be sleeping rough or in vehicles. Nine teams spread out across the city at 5:30am for two hours. They gave people they met information about TPP, coffee, food and warm clothes.

The key aim of our annual three-day outreach campaign is to connect with people, to offer support and build relationships. Connections Week is an extension of the Outreach we complete every weekday.

These results do not provide a complete picture of homelessness in Kirikiriroa. We keep track of details about people we meet each day, but this is not a scientific exercise. We are simply reporting about who we met over three days in parts of Hamilton with a view to getting them the urgent support needed.

Building trust takes time. We expect, as has happens every year, more people will come in for support over the next weeks and months. Therefore, our data about those we connected with is limited to those who connected in the first two weeks after Connections week.

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