THE NEW CITY MISSION AND THE WOMAN WHO RUNS IT.
“IT IS SO IN-OUR-FACE THAT IT IS WOMEN WHO ARE BEARING THE BURDEN OF FOOD INSECURITY, AND PARTICULARLY WOMEN WHO ARE RAISING CHILDREN ALONE.”
Remember April last year? We didn’t know about Delta, let alone Omicron, and could plan trans-Tasman travel. It was possible to think life was back to normal.
That was when Helen Robinson – wearing a lei of cream flowers, pounamu and a korowai cloak over her long black dress – was formally welcomed as the Auckland City Missioner beneath the rainbow-coloured glass of St Matthew-in-the-City.
“It was an incredibly powerful day in my life,” Helen recalls now, nearly a year later. “The joy of having all my whānau there and all
