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Recovery & Resilience in Roskill
This is your chance to be part of shaping the future of our community. More than three years after the 2023 floods, recovery challenges remain in Wesley and Roskill. Together, we can build back better than before.
Project Overview
The 2023 floods badly impacted people in Wesley and Roskill. Since the floods, a group of locals have come together to help our community feel recovered and build back better than before. This group, the Wesley & Roskill Leadership Rōpū, is made up of local everyday people: renters, Kāinga Ora tenants, homeowners, community leaders and organisers.
Across 2025, the Rōpū was out across Wesley and Roskill listening to what recovery means for our community now, and what challenges are still real in our lives. They listened through street chats, talanoa in different languages, surveys, events, knocking on doors, and sitting at kitchen tables over cups of tea. What they heard helped to shape a community led recovery action plan that is by our community, and for our community.
This community led recovery action plan, Recovery and Resilience in Roskill, is about coming together to understand what is still needed and creating a shared vision for a stronger, safer, and more connected Wesley and Roskill. It’s our home, our story, and our future to shape together.
“How we get our dream neighbourhood is by a plan and roles and if everyone can do their part.”
- Wesley Intermediate Student, 2025.
Recovery and Resilience in Roskill identifies, from the community’s own view, the ongoing needs and impacts of the flooding events from 2023, and identifies key priorities to address ongoing issues and needs. Read Recovery and Resilience in Roskill here!
The first round of Building Back Better Together Funding was launched alongside the release of Recovery and Resilience in Roskill. This funding means that anyone in our community with an idea to address the key community priorities for recovery, can put forward their project for funding. Funding has now closed for applications.
Now, it is up to the whole community to decide which projects should receive funding.
Every vote matters, this is your chance to be part of shaping our future. Vote Here Now!
Voting will remain open for two weeks from Saturday April 11th to Sunday April 26th, 2026.
Voting link: https://forms.gle/m5SoQ1WDSdrHWpYd7
Project Overview
Recovery Action Plan
How to Apply for Funding
Vote Here
Recovery Projects
Resources
Recovery & Resilience in Roskill
This is your chance to be part of shaping the future of our community. More than three years after the 2023 floods, recovery challenges remain in Wesley and Roskill. Together, we can build back better than before.
Project Overview
The 2023 floods badly impacted people in Wesley and Roskill. Since the floods, a group of locals have come together to help our community feel recovered and build back better than before. This group, the Wesley & Roskill Leadership Rōpū, is made up of local everyday people: renters, Kāinga Ora tenants, homeowners, community leaders and organisers.
Across 2025, the Rōpū was out across Wesley and Roskill listening to what recovery means for our community now, and what challenges are still real in our lives. They listened through street chats, talanoa in different languages, surveys, events, knocking on doors, and sitting at kitchen tables over cups of tea. What they heard helped to shape a community led recovery action plan that is by our community, and for our community.
This community led recovery action plan, Recovery and Resilience in Roskill, is about coming together to understand what is still needed and creating a shared vision for a stronger, safer, and more connected Wesley and Roskill. It’s our home, our story, and our future to shape together.
“How we get our dream neighbourhood is by a plan and roles and if everyone can do their part.”
- Wesley Intermediate Student, 2025.
Recovery and Resilience in Roskill identifies, from the community’s own view, the ongoing needs and impacts of the flooding events from 2023, and identifies key priorities to address ongoing issues and needs. Read Recovery and Resilience in Roskill here!
The first round of Building Back Better Together Funding was launched alongside the release of Recovery and Resilience in Roskill. This funding means that anyone in our community with an idea to address the key community priorities for recovery, can put forward their project for funding. Funding has now closed for applications.
Now, it is up to the whole community to decide which projects should receive funding.
Every vote matters, this is your chance to be part of shaping our future. Vote Here Now!
Voting will remain open for two weeks from Saturday April 11th to Sunday April 26th, 2026.
Voting link: https://forms.gle/m5SoQ1WDSdrHWpYd7
THE TEAM
Meet the team working hard on our local recovery project
Fadumo Ahmad QSA
is the Founder and Director of New Zealand Ethnic Women’s Trust. The NZEWT is focused on ensuring migrant and refugee families are fully included, supported, and heard throughout the recovery process.
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Fadumo Ahmad QSA
is the Founder and Director of New Zealand Ethnic Women’s Trust. The NZEWT is focused on ensuring migrant and refugee families are fully included, supported, and heard throughout the recovery process.
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Zakir Shaikh
has lived in Mount Roskill for 30 years and is closely connected with Masjid-e Umar. He represents MIRT (Mount Roskill Islamic Trust) in the Leadership Rōpū and the NZ Police Ethnic Cohesion initiative. He loves volunteering, serving the community, and meeting people from different cultures and backgrounds.
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Zakir Shaikh
has lived in Mount Roskill for 30 years and is closely connected with Masjid-e Umar. He represents MIRT (Mount Roskill Islamic Trust) in the Leadership Rōpū and the NZ Police Ethnic Cohesion initiative. He loves volunteering, serving the community, and meeting people from different cultures and backgrounds.
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Peter Leilua
is the Minister at Global Hope Missions and the Global Lighthouse Foundation, a member of ARK – Acts of Roskill Kindness – Puketāpapa, a long time Wesley resident and a key community leader.
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Peter Leilua
is the Minister at Global Hope Missions and the Global Lighthouse Foundation, a member of ARK – Acts of Roskill Kindness – Puketāpapa, a long time Wesley resident and a key community leader.
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Kirstin Cant
lives, works and loves Roskill South. She is a community worker running the Roskill South Hub, a mumma, and loves decorating birthday cakes and wild potluck dinners. Her happy place is being part of community events and hanging out at Molley Green Reserve. She believes in 2nd chances and the good everyone has to offer.
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Kirstin Cant
lives, works and loves Roskill South. She is a community worker running the Roskill South Hub, a mumma, and loves decorating birthday cakes and wild potluck dinners. Her happy place is being part of community events and hanging out at Molley Green Reserve. She believes in 2nd chances and the good everyone has to offer.
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Roosandee Edirisinghe
is a recent graduate of Mount Roskill Grammar, currently dedicating her gap year before university, to volunteer and do community work. She is a strong believer in the power of collective voices to create meaningful change within a community.
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Roosandee Edirisinghe
is a recent graduate of Mount Roskill Grammar, currently dedicating her gap year before university, to volunteer and do community work. She is a strong believer in the power of collective voices to create meaningful change within a community.
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Richard Barter
brings community-driven leadership and deep local knowledge to the Puketāpapa Leadership Rōpū, representing Acts of Roskill Kindness (ARK). Richard is a key community leader who brings people together and drives community development across Puketāpapa.
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Richard Barter
brings community-driven leadership and deep local knowledge to the Puketāpapa Leadership Rōpū, representing Acts of Roskill Kindness (ARK). Richard is a key community leader who brings people together and drives community development across Puketāpapa.
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Sasi Syed Niyamathullah
is a hopeful believer in community action, serving as Programme Coordinator at Wesley Community Centre and specialising in supporting diverse, refugee, and migrant communities.
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Sasi Syed Niyamathullah
is a hopeful believer in community action, serving as Programme Coordinator at Wesley Community Centre and specialising in supporting diverse, refugee, and migrant communities.
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Henry Briggs
is a proud long-time Wesley resident who raised his children in the neighbourhood. He is a flood-impacted homeowner, and a strong supporter of the local Tongan community.
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Henry Briggs
is a proud long-time Wesley resident who raised his children in the neighbourhood. He is a flood-impacted homeowner, and a strong supporter of the local Tongan community.
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Nik Naidu
is a dedicated community leader and founder of the Wesley Whānau Community Centre on Stoddard Road. His mahi is grounded in solidarity, supporting smaller Pasifika groups and helping strengthen wellbeing and outcomes across these communities.
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Nik Naidu
is a dedicated community leader and founder of the Wesley Whānau Community Centre on Stoddard Road. His mahi is grounded in solidarity, supporting smaller Pasifika groups and helping strengthen wellbeing and outcomes across these communities.
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Manha Marzook
is a 17-year-old local resident originally from Sri Lankan and a current year 13 student at Mt Roskill Grammar graduate. She is a part of the next wave of locals working to secure a stronger future for our community.
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Manha Marzook
is a 17-year-old local resident originally from Sri Lankan and a current year 13 student at Mt Roskill Grammar graduate. She is a part of the next wave of locals working to secure a stronger future for our community.
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Sevai Tolovae
is a long time Roskill resident impacted by the flooding. She is a community champion and works as a teacher aide at May Road School helping local children which she loves. Sevai is dedicated to supporting the community.
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Sevai Tolovae
is a long time Roskill resident impacted by the flooding. She is a community champion and works as a teacher aide at May Road School helping local children which she loves. Sevai is dedicated to supporting the community.
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David Mitchell
is the Community Development Coordinator with Roskill Together, the anchor organisation partnering with Auckland Council to support community-led recovery in Wesley and Puketāpapa. Roskill Together sits in a non-decision-making role within the Rōpū, focused on strengthening and enabling community-led action as a core part of this mahi.
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David Mitchell
is the Community Development Coordinator with Roskill Together, the anchor organisation partnering with Auckland Council to support community-led recovery in Wesley and Puketāpapa. Roskill Together sits in a non-decision-making role within the Rōpū, focused on strengthening and enabling community-led action as a core part of this mahi.
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Eve McLoughlin
is the Community Development Manager with Roskill Together, the anchor organisation partnering with Auckland Council to support community-led recovery in Wesley and Puketāpapa. Roskill Together sits in a non-decision-making role within the Rōpū, focused on strengthening and enabling community-led action as a core part of this mahi.
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Eve McLoughlin
is the Community Development Manager with Roskill Together, the anchor organisation partnering with Auckland Council to support community-led recovery in Wesley and Puketāpapa. Roskill Together sits in a non-decision-making role within the Rōpū, focused on strengthening and enabling community-led action as a core part of this mahi.
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Karen Goodall
is representing the Mt Roskill Community Association, who are focused on ensuring people have safe, secure homes through their housing advocacy mahi. She first became involved in Wesley and Roskill after the 2023 floods, working alongside local organisations to develop a community-led emergency plan to support a stronger response next time.
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Karen Goodall
is representing the Mt Roskill Community Association, who are focused on ensuring people have safe, secure homes through their housing advocacy mahi. She first became involved in Wesley and Roskill after the 2023 floods, working alongside local organisations to develop a community-led emergency plan to support a stronger response next time.
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We love hearing from our community. Whether you’d like to get involved, share an idea, or just say Kia Ora. Our team would love to hear from you.
Building better community in Puketāpapa, together.
422 Mt Albert Rd, Mt Roskill, Auckland 1041
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Building better community in Puketāpapa, together.
422 Mt Albert Rd, Mt Roskill, Auckland 1041
CONTACT & SOCIALS
© 2025 Roskill Together.
All rights reserved