“Land Ho!” Young Labour heads South

The Young Labour Clarion Tour has reached the Mainland after an intense, but rewarding week of offering a hand to community groups throughout the North Island. The refreshed team (with some members having left in Wellington and others joined) will spend Monday to Friday working in various South Island communities.

First stop is Motueka; where Young Labour will help out the in the local community gardens. Work towards sustainable and resilient communities, said Vice President Ella Hardy was “alive and well in centres such as Motueka, where Young Labour is passionate about helping out groups like those active in the heart of Tasman.”

The second stop will be Nelson, where the group is hoping for a spot of sunshine after battling poor weather to contribute to the restoration of Bell’s Track native bush in Wellington. The Clarion Tour team will bare their green thumbs once again as the 17-26 year olds help build a vegetable garden and establish a barbeque area at the Orchard Street Reserve at House 44, a community home on Karaka Street. Local Labour List MP Maryan Street will join the group in while they assist in Nelson.

Hokitika and the West Coast will receive the Tour on Wednesday as the group flexes their artistic flair by painting a mural for one of the local schools. Nicola Wood, from Wellington, was excited to “Expand the repertoire of our skills”.

Putting away their paintbrushes, the group troops on to Arrowtown where they will build a trampoline, top up sandpits, waterblast and generally prepare the centre for the new year. Rory McCourt, a Young Labour member from Gisborne, said he looks forward to giving back to schools and early childhood centres such as those in Hokitika and Arrowtown who “had taken a hit under the current National Government.”

The Tour culminates with the Young Labour Summer School, regarded as one of the brainstorming and long-term reflective highlights on the Labour Party’s calendar.

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