Author: president NZNA

Our badminton sessions are proving to be one of the most popular activities. 

We were able to resume these sessions around October 2021 after a few long months of COVID lockdown. Getting together and playing badminton has been an important vehicle for our members/participants to stay positive, stay healthy physically and mentally, and support each other in true community spirit.

We have had wonderful participation from men so far. From July 2022, we also have a dedicated time slot especially for women and children. This is our next step plan in order to ensure that our programs are equitably accessible to a diverse group of people, so that everyone benefits.

On any given day, we have approximately 15-25 people playing. We hope that we are able to accommodate more people as they come. It is indeed great to see everyone enjoying a total workout. Keep up the excitement, team spirit, togetherness, and a bit of competition…

Thanks to the Waitākere Badminton Centre, Massey for providing us with the venue on Sunday mornings.

Our momo feast event was indeed an amazing and a memorable night. Our momo program happened on Saturday June 25th, 2022 at Massey Community Hub. Celebrating getting back together after a long COVID hiatus, nothing more would have been perfect other than enjoying momo, especially at the cold midwinter times in Auckland.

Momo is the ever favourite dumpling dish among all Nepali. Momo making is a multistep process, is time consuming and requires a considerable effort. The fun in it is really everyone lending their hands to get the job done, and then of course, getting to reap the benefits by eating the scrumptious momo in the end. Indeed this is what we witnessed at the program. We would like to thank all the members, family, and friends for contributing and sharing workload in the kitchen, for arranging all the resources to ease the pressure to cook significant amount of momos, wrapping the delicious goodness, setting up the venue, arranging healthy dose of entertainment in between, and for the clean up. We did it all together. Everyone truly showed that it was a family affair by engaging in every possible manner.

We were able to whakawhanaunga with many people who we previously had not met before. We made new connections with new friends, and those who we had met before, we were able to strengthen our relationships going forward.

We were too busy dealing with the organised chaos, and did not snap up many photos. Regardless, the good memories of the night will remain in our minds for a long time.