About Us

Everyone is welcome at Multicultural Aoraki. We aim to celebrate our local community and the diverse cultural backgrounds of its members. Our goals are to help breakdown cultural barriers through the promotion of understanding, raise cultural awareness, and provide connection to our migrant and newcomer population.

Whether you’ve just arrived in New Zealand or have been here all of your life we are available to help.We host events to help our communities connect, as well as information seminars and training workshops.

We can provide help with the following things:

• Linking with other community/cultural groups
• Cultural awareness workshops and training
• Connecting to community services and government agencies

Contact us to chat or check out our regular events on the home page.

Multicultural Aoraki (formerly Aoraki Migrant Centre) was founded in 2004. Since then, we have been providing support, advice and advocacy to our local multicultural and newcomer communities.

We formed the Aoraki Multicultural Council in response to the South East Asian Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004. It was originally to facilitate fundraising efforts to aid those affected by the Tsunami’s devastation, however soon evolved into a much larger service.

We saw a gap in the services available to those moving here from overseas, especially those who spoke little English or came from diverse cultural backgrounds. We realised there was a need for a place to help connect people to the wider community. 

Nils Macfarlane - General Manager nils@multiculturalaoraki.co.nz

Thea Schutte - Administrator admin@multiculturalaoraki.co.nz

Maturo Siaosi - Events & Media Manager maturo@multiculturalaoraki.co.nz

Areej Al Momani, Mustafa Areej Al Momani and Viki McKenzie - Health Navigators for Former Refugees viki@multiculturalaoraki.co.nz

Hazel Turner-Walker - Former Refugees Health Lead

Mya Moana - Housing Navigator mya@multiculturalaoraki.org.nz