Inspiring Dreams,

Enabling Futures.

We enable bright futures for our kids through education and interest-focussed opportunities in partnership with schools, whānau and the community.

I Have a Dream is focused on inspiring dreams and enabling futures for Tamariki (children) and Rangatahi (youth). Programme participants (Dreamers) are supported and mentored by Navigators in a long term program across their time at our partner schools and beyond, helping connect them to ongoing education and employment opportunities.

Navigators provide mentoring, tutoring, life coaching, role modelling and support for our Dreamers. We instill values of higher education, career aspirations, healthy relationships and life success, to ensure every child has the resources, opportunities and networks they need to succeed. Navigators come from all walks of life and backgrounds and work in partnership with schools, whānau and other people in the support networks of Dreamers to help see each child reach their full potential.

Every $1 invested in I Have a Dream, results in $3.60 being returned to New Zealand in Social Investment, meaning our work has a positive flow on effect not just for the kids we work with but for the wider community as a whole.

I Have a Dream Navigators encourage and support their individual group of kids, teaching them the life skills and academic assistance they need to succeed.

Generational change takes time. I Have a Dream is focused on long-term solutions, and a long term commitment to investing in young people so they can thrive and reach their full potential.

I Have a Dream doesn’t work only with the most talented or at-risk children. Our programme is available to every child in the low-decile schools in which we work.

You can help I Have A Dream create successful futures for young people.