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New Zealand renovators to the rescue Plunket New Zealand and HUGGIES® Nappies joined forces recently to renovate and make over the 15-year-old Plunket Family Centre in Henderson, West Auckland, New Zealand. Plunket is the largest provider of services for the development, health and well-being of children. These services are available free to New Zealand families with children from birth to 5 years old. Plunket and the HUGGIES brand have been partners for more than 13 years.  Plunket New Zealand and HUGGIES® Nappies employees joined forces to renovate and make over a 15-year-old family centre in three short days. The Plunket Family Center, also known as the Waitemata Family Centre, offers a variety of services such as health checks, car seat rentals and parenting education, and was in need of a multitude of repairs. With the help of HUGGIES employees, it was completely refurbished with walls knocked down, a new kitchen installed and extensive redecoration inside and outside in just three days. The centre opened its doors again on August 21 with a kaumatua blessing attended by the Honorable Paula Bennett, Minister for Social Development. The Minister congratulated all those who had taken part. “It’s a real challenge to get businesses to look outside themselves and see what they can do in the community,” Bennett said. “This is what the HUGGIES team has done, and they have had such fun doing it. This will live on in this community.” Tristram Wilkinson, general manager for Kimberly-Clark Corporation in New Zealand, which produces HUGGIES Nappies, noted that, as with many good ideas, this one came from a HUGGIES Nappies team member who was looking for a way of doing more than simply providing funding support to Plunket and wanted to give personal time to their community. “HUGGIES Nappies have been a partner to Plunket for more than a decade,” Wilkinson said. “It’s a relationship which makes sense to both organizations. More than 40 members of our team volunteered, and I am incredibly impressed by their collective ability to paint, decorate, build kitchen cabinets and landscape the garden. It is amazing what a group of motivated people can achieve together in just a few days.”  More than 40 volunteers worked to renovate a family centre. Caro Watts, Plunket area manager for Waitemata, commented that the renovation was like something out of a television show with a new kitchen, walls painted, new carpet and a newly landscaped garden, all in three days. “Plunket family centres are a gateway through which families receive support and information, so it is important for us to be able to offer them a safe comfortable place to visit,” Watts said. “We want to say a huge thank you to the team from HUGGIES Nappies for this wonderful opportunity to bring our centre up to date and better equipped to serve families in our community.” A video clip of the “makeover” can be seen on the New Zealand HUGGIES brand website. |
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