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Rotorua's shelter for homeless women and children has been given $50,000 to start the New Year which will be used to provide extra social work support throughout 2019.
BayTrust approved the grant, made to Visions of a Helping Hand Charitable Trust Rotorua, just before Christmas. Visions administrator Julia Fonotia says the money will be used to help pay for a second social worker who is now based at the Tarewa Rd shelter to help improve women's parenting and life skills so they can eventually move into a place of their own.
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"It might be something as simple as helping them get a driver's licence so they don't rack up fines or get arrested," Fonotia said.