Events
Streetworks Event November 2010
In tried and true Streetworks fashion, the November 2010 event saw more changes: we’re a striving bunch!
240 people took the time to make November 6 an extraordinary day for the people they came into contact with; they took the time to love their neighbour and be community.
There were many groups, each with a mission for the day: to chop firewood for the cold, to cook for the hungry, to sing for a retirement home, to garden for a stranger, to spend the day immersed in the community of Hamilton.
This event concluded with a hangi for 500 volunteers and community members. The hangi posed many challenged and opportunities and added a new dynamic (and much work) to the event!
At a glance fences were painted, rubbish removed, baking delivered, tennis courts restored and games were played; but looking deeper – moments were shared, questions were asked and answered, thoughts were provoked, seeds were planted, lives were touched, God’s love was worked out.
16 hours
240 volunteers 250 wraps & 300 water bottles
18 boxes of fruit & baking
800 kids and parents enjoying 600 free sausages at Family Day
500 biscuits decorated, 400 cups of tea, 100’s of faces painted
1 chest freezer filled with 213 emergency meals
11 recipes creating 536 pieces of baking for 174 staff, visitors and patients at the hospital
2 mechanical splitters and 15 axe-wielding men working to chop and deliver firewood to 27 homes
3 tonnes of sand, 1 broken tow bar, 3 sandpits built
4 post holes, 1 concrete truck, 1 water blaster, brooms and line
Paint to makeover 4 tennis courts
11 flower gardens and 3 vege gardens planted
1 school, 1 kindergarten and 31 gardens cleaned up
19 trailers to the organic and inorganic dump
40 years of ivy and 1700kg of weeds & grass clippings removed
16 lawns mowed
1 rear windscreen broken & 2 trolleys returned to New World
6 fences painted & 1 house cleaned
16 songs played and sung to 1 retirement home
100 litres of custard and 16 steam puddings for dessert-first reverse dinner
1 in-ground hangi, 1 steamer, hundreds of vegetables providing dinner for 400 people
