Community Work scheme helps Motueka Hospital

February 5th, 2010
(summarised from press release)

Motueka Hospital and Hospice has received a helping hand from Community Probation and Psychological Services (CPPS) over the past eight months to improve their grounds and buildings. This included gardening, rock removal, treeplanting, earth work, digging postholes, laying bark, and garden furniture assembly.

Offenders also worked during the construction of the hospital buildings, undertaking floor cleaning and building site maintenance.

Work party supervisor Darren Morris helped oversee the work on the project over the last year, and has been pleased with the results. "This is a big project for Nelson CPPS," he says. "There is about 10 acres of land and buildings are extensive. The labour that we've supplied to help the hospital should hopefully really benefit the local communities."

CPPS manages offenders sentenced by the courts to carry out a sentence of community work, which requires them to do unpaid work in the community for non-profit organisations as reparation for their offending. Collectively CPPS work parties have put in hundreds of hours of community work at the Motueka Hospital and Hospice over the last year.

They are managed by community work supervisers while on the job, and are assessed as to their suitability for any projects they take part in. CPPS has also organised work parties to undertake track clearing in Marahau.

CPPS will continue to undertake community work at the Motueka Hospital and Hospice with ongoing involvement in gardening and grounds maintenance once the building has been completed.

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