We’re proud to share that the Belong Aotearoa Annual Report 2024–2025 is now live. Dive in to see how our whānau has grown, the impact we’re making together, and the vision that’s guiding us forward.
Belonging in action: 2022–2024 Impact Report out now.
Belong Aotearoa
We work to drive transformational change to improve inclusion, belonging and wellbeing for refugee-background and migrant communities.
For more than 20 years, Belong Aotearoa (Formerly known as Auckland Regional Migrant Services Charitable Trust) has worked to understand the settlement experience for newcomers to New Zealand and to influence and advocate for migrants and former refugees to have access to better opportunities and wellbeing outcomes.
Our Work
Our work improves the well-being for former refugee and migrant communities by challenging the systems that make it hard to settle in Aotearoa.
Our People
Our diverse team brings a broad range of skills and experience to the work we do. Learn more about our people.
Get Involved
Your support helps Belong Aotearoa to improve the settlement experience for migrants and refugees in Aotearoa.
Help us build an inclusive, connected Aotearoa where newcomer communities thrive and contribute to our shared wellbeing. Your donation makes this vision possible.
As we reflect on a year marked by grief, political tension, and deepening division, the idea of “strategic amnesia” has become hard to ignore, the convenient forgetting of history, context, and responsibility. This kind of forgetting enables the normalisation of racism and the dismissal of hard truths, even when evidence, such as the UN CERD report, clearly shows our race relations are deteriorating. As we move toward 2026, the question we must ask is not only what our leaders want us to know, but what they hope we will forget.