The kindness of friends and strangers has helped an elderly Christchurch woman cope after her award-winning vegetable garden was ripped up by a digger.
Many gardeners were horrified last week when a 80-year-old tenant at a Christchurch social housing property had her garden ripped up by authorities without warning.
Jacky Braid of Havelock North decided she had to collect plants for Wang because it felt personal.
Photo: Tom Kitchin
Since then, offers of help to replenish the garden have come from far and wide, including some from as far away as Hawke s Bay.
When Jacky Braid from Havelock North heard Zhang Wang s garden in Christchurch had been destroyed, she knew she had to act. My mother s an elderly Asian woman too and I just saw this 80-year-old Asian woman who is obviously of Chinese descent have her garden completely ripped out and destroyed, she said.
On Tuesday it “unreservedly apologised” for not telling Wang it planned to bring the digger in on Monday, but stood by its decision to turn most of the garden into grass and leave a small section for Wang’s vegetables. On Thursday, Kearney said it was “incredibly disappointing and concerning” the trust’s staff had been threatened and abused.
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Zhang Wang created a vegetable garden 10 years ago at her social housing unit. Now it has been bulldozed - without her being informed. “This kind of behaviour is never OK. This week we made a mistake and our teams worked hard to put it right. It is unacceptable that abusive or threatening behaviour has been directed towards our team.”
Press Release – Enable One of the countrys leading community housing providers, tautahi Community Housing Trust (CHT), and Christchurch fibre company, Enable, aim to eliminate digital inequity for CHT housing tenants living in Christchurch through a new 10-year partnership. …
One of the country’s leading community housing providers, Ōtautahi Community Housing Trust (ŌCHT), and Christchurch fibre company, Enable, aim to eliminate digital inequity for ŌCHT housing tenants living in Christchurch through a new 10-year partnership.
Both organisations understand that community housing tenants can experience high levels of digital exclusion. More than 60 percent of ŌCHT tenants are not connected to the internet at home – meaning they do not have the means or skills to access and benefit from the digital world. This compares to an estimated 10 percent of the whole community.
Saturday, 15 May 2021, 1:24 pm
One of the country’s leading community housing
providers, Ōtautahi Community Housing Trust (ŌCHT), and
Christchurch fibre company, Enable, aim to eliminate digital
inequity for ŌCHT housing tenants living in Christchurch
through a new 10-year partnership.
Both organisations
understand that community housing tenants can experience
high levels of digital exclusion. More than 60 percent of
ŌCHT tenants are not connected to the internet at home –
meaning they do not have the means or skills to access and
benefit from the digital world. This compares to an
estimated 10 percent of the whole community.
“Enable
and ŌCHT share a belief that the opportunity to access the