Walk My Life is a learning simulation developed by the Auckland City Mission - Te Tāpui Atawhai that seeks to help learners aged 14-17 understand some of the challenges faced by people experiencing homelessness. This resource attempts to “spark a conversation” for students, allowing them to explore their ideas and feelings about this complex topic. We hope it will serve schools as another item in your kete - adding to your basket of knowledge.

We suggest that teachers look at “Resources” beforehand which include questions for students to think about before and after and a list of links to organisations if people require any support. The “Take Action” gives further ideas and prompts for schools if learners wish to act and join with us in our Mission to aim for accessible kai, hauora and kāinga for all.

Please do use the feedback form at the end to help us improve this resource.

Thank you

Special Thanks:

The Mission would like to especially thank Midu Chandra, from Seen Ventures, who generously agreed to organise the development of this resource and coordinated a team across Mission Ready HQ, Datacom NZ and Seen Ventures to make it happen.

We would also like to acknowledge and thank Yasmin Mahagna from Auckland Girls Grammar School who contributed to our teaching resources and overall game input.

There are many people who helped and so our grateful thanks to you all for donating your time and skills to produce this resource:

Mission Ready HQ

Mikee Timmango - BA/Scrum Master

Alyna Abellanosa - Experience Designer

Only Zhuang - Experience Designer

Paola Rodriguez - Experience Designer

Pouyan Iranpour - Full Stack Developer

Seen Ventures & Datacom

Danbee An - Design Coach

Vatthana Boulom - Coach

Midu Chandra – Coach

Sarah Clarke - Front End Developer

Kaimahi Auckland City Mission - Te Tāpui Atawhai

Sophia Sharpe - Project Lead, Scenario Author, Product Owner

Sophie Armitage - Acting Product Owner

Carol Herbert - Content Overview

Kellie Kirkland - Lead Content Consultant

Courtney Bowden - Content Consultant

Christopher J.Tenisio - Content Consultant

Ellen Lear - Lead Communications Consultant

Teachers

Yasmin Mahagna - Lead Teacher Consultant (Auckland Girls Grammar School)

Mary Pottinger - Teacher tester (Takapuna Grammar School)

The Mission would like to thank students from both Auckland Girls Grammar School and Takapuna Grammar School for giving up their time to test our online scenario.