Citizens Advice Marlborough

The Team from Citizens Advice Bureau Marlborough

It’s CAB Awareness Week! This is when we put a spotlight on the CAB to celebrate our mahi and highlight to the community the support and services we offer.

This year’s theme is ‘Tūturu te tangata, tūturu te tautoko – real people, real support. It reflects the fact that the CAB is a place where people can get help from a real person who will assist them with the questions, issues or challenges they are facing.

We are able to offer this person-to-person assistance because of our trained volunteers working out of our office [offices] here in [location]. Our volunteers are the people who deliver our service of information and advice to the public. They volunteer for the CAB because they want to support and empower people and make a difference in people’s lives.

Our volunteers will listen to you and tautoko (support) you with the information you need to help you understand your rights and options and to figure out your next steps. They can connect you with the specialist services you may need.

In the past year, our volunteers from the local community responded to [insert number of enquiries] enquiries from the public. They assisted people with questions and issues on a wide range of topics including renting, employment, relationship issues, immigration issues, consumer problems, and more.

You can learn more about the CAB by reading the most recent CABNZ Annual Report, at:
www.cab.org.nz...

Informed by the work CAB does with clients, in the past year CABNZ (our national body) has spoken out on social justice issues including those relating to income support, the Family Court system, consumer rights, temporary work visas, the voting system, homelessness and severe housing need, and the redress system for those who experienced abuse while living under the guardianship or care of state or faith-based organisations.

You can read the recent submissions CABNZ has made on social justice issues, at:
www.cab.org.nz...

If you need support and don’t know who to ask, or if you would like to give back to the community through volunteering with an organisation whose mahi assists people individually and also benefits the wider community, CAB could be the place for you.

Hono mai! Join us! Come and be part of the CAB - an organisation that offers the community real support from real people.

You can contact us by calling our free CAB phone number 0800 367 222, by dropping in to see us at 25 Alfred Street, Blenheim (no appointment needed), or by contacting us via our CAB website at cab.org.nz.

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