The ARO project journey started in 2020 with Praxis Aotearoa.
Praxis is a network of youth development practitioners who are educating the next generation of leadership.
Like many groups in the NGO and education sectors, Praxis Aotearoa was challenged that their organisation could do better, in caring for the environment — not just in preparing youth practitioners for working in a changing climate, but in the organisation’s real impacts on the environment.
Aro is seven years old.
The ARO project takes its name not just from the goals we set, but also from the moko of Lloyd, Praxis Educator.
For us she personifies the connection and responsibility we feel towards the next generation. Our young people will inherit a world with significant environmental challenges that they have contributed very little towards. The ARO project believes that the act of mitigating problems like climate change should resource and empower the communities and people who will be at the frontline of this crisis.