History and Background

The Aotearoa Ethnic Communities Trust (AECT) is a registered charity in New Zealand.

The (AECT) was originally called the Migrant Fellowship and Support Group. The support group has in the last 22 years (since 2001) worked in partnership with local community groups in New Zealand and overseas to support newcomers, migrants, refugees, and ethnic communities to make informed choices related to settlement in New Zealand.

The AECT has been working in partnership with organizations to promote women's empowerment and community development by providing resources and education. We have been supporting the poor, vulnerable, and marginalized communities to learn skills, gain experience to attain their rights and future aspirations via various workshops, projects, and programmes.

We have been working with communities to overcome challenges related to integration, health, employment, education, access to government funded services, limited social support, racism, and trauma by making collaborative and effective solutions to improve outcomes related to integration.

We are organizing monthly events and are involved in the following projects in New Zealand,

1. Multicultural Community Connect Group.

2.  Mobile Migrant Support and Mentorship Programme

3. Settlement and Job Search Workshops.

4. Crises Response and Management

Please go to the Events page to register for the programme.

AECT is slowly progressing into developmental phases of the programme. We have successfully completed phase one of  Women Empowerment Programme and opened a weekly women empowerment training programme. We also successfully ran Mobile Support Project in New Zealand. We are facing challenges like low manpower, reduced staffing, limited resources/equipment, and limited finances and we need your support to increase the effectiveness of the project.

You donation will help us to support the communities.