‘The people in this book … face the uncertainty and the risks, and choose to wield fierce hope over passivity and cynicism to help shape a better future.’
In papakāinga, schools, marae and communities from Te Hauke to Porirua, Papakura to Aranui, award-winning journalist Rebecca Macfie discovers powerful local responses to poverty.
Expanding on her New Zealand Listener series, Macfie reveals the everyday struggles whanau face across the country and lays bare the systems that perpetuate poverty. Hardship and Hope grounds the national poverty crisis in the lived realities of the people and organisations leading local initiatives to confront injustice and build a fairer future.
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