Know your Rights - Understanding Finance in New Zealand Workshop

Name: Know your Rights - Understanding Finance in New Zealand Workshop
Start: 2025-11-27T01:30:00-0500
End: 2025-11-27T02:30:00-0500

Thu, 27 Nov, 1:30am - 2:30am EST

Online Event

HOST International Aotearoa New Zealand

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Free Online Community Workshop: Know Your Rights Series - Understanding Finance in New Zealand
In collaboration with DLA Piper and Westpac

Join us to for a FREE community workshop to learn about:

🏦 Banking Basics – Setting up an account, understanding types of accounts, entering contracts, sending/receiving money from overseas and more.
📜 Know Your Rights – Key consumer rights and protections, unforeseen hardship, making a complaint and banks’ responsibilities in NZ.
💰 Operating an Account – Common types of frauds and scams, customer responsibilities.

🎓 Certificate of Attendance – Receive a certificate of attendance to showcase your commitment to professional growth.

Free for any refugee and migrant background individuals and communities.

Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity

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Overview

HOST International Aotearoa New Zealand (HOST NZ) is a New Zealand-registered charity, founded in 2018, that supports effective integration of former refugees, migrants, and displaced people, promoting manaakitanga (care & hospitality) toward newcomers.

Vision & Mission

HOST’s vision is for a more inclusive world where displaced individuals and host communities work together to build better lives based on humanity, hope and dignity. Our mission is to improve and settlement outcomes and self-agency by fostering individual wellbeing, community inclusion, and systemic change.

Key Services & Programs

HOST operates across four principal service areas:

Community Capacity Building – Developing leadership and voice for ethnic communities (currently under development).
Digital Inclusion – Co-designing digital literacy initiatives to bridge the digital divide for former refugee and migrant communities.
Community Refugee Sponsorship (CORS) – Serving as umbrella organisation for the extended pilot (2021–2026). HOST guides community groups in sponsoring refugees and supports settlement for two years
Employment & Career Support – Offering strengths-based, trauma-informed coaching, mentoring, and employer outreach to support meaningful employment for former refugees and migrants.

Thu, 27 Nov, 1:30am - 2:30am EST

Online Event

Hosted by HOST International Aotearoa New Zealand