Hospice Awareness Week: Let’s Keep Community Hospice Strong in Taupō

Written By Kim Manunui

At Lake Taupo Hospice, we provide vital care, comfort, and compassion to people facing the end of life—all within their own homes and community. As a community hospice with no in-patient unit, our support wraps around patients and families where they live, helping them feel safe, dignified, and cared for in familiar surroundings.

Our community is there for us, and we’re incredibly grateful for the generous support we receive—from volunteers, donors, businesses, and local fundraisers. It’s because of you that we’re able to do what we do.

But even with this incredible backing, we’re part of a national hospice system under pressure.

Hospices support one in three people who die in Aotearoa each year, yet government funding only covers about half of the actual cost. Last year alone, hospices across New Zealand had to raise over $112 million just to keep services running.

Thanks to our amazing Taupō community, we continue to provide high-quality care—but without a fairer and more sustainable funding model from the government, hospices like ours are being stretched. We’re advocating for change now to ensure that we can keep delivering the care people need, when they need it most.

This Hospice Awareness Week, we’re asking our supporters to stand with us once again. Help us remind decision-makers how vital hospice care is—not just nationally, but right here in Taupō.

Together, we can protect and strengthen hospice care for generations to come.

If you would like to donate to Lake Taupō Hospice click here

Kim Manunui

Hi, I’m Kim and I work with a great team to help individuals, as well as small and not so small businesses get their message, product and services to the world using digital media and creating wonderful websites that don’t cost the earth.

I was born in Canada, and grew up around Vancouver and the mountains of British Columbia. My love of pristine environments led me to New Zealand and eventually to the mountains, lakes and rivers of the central North Island which is home. My family’s heritage is here, and it’s from here that Korio traverses the planet.

The digital world is never static and neither are we.

And I say ‘we’ because I work with an awesome group of talented people who I gather together as required to complete a project.  Whatever your business, not-for-profit or individual needs are we gather the best team to get the job done.

Collaboratively we are creative, share sustainable values and work hard for great outcomes because that’s the buzz of satisfaction that drives us.

If you have an audience and market to reach, we can make that happen. Creative design, words that work and smart behind the scenes stuff that cuts through the online noise. We’ll design your website and then build it. We’ll manage the content as well as all your hosting needs. We can handle your online advertising so you get noticed,
and we’ll manage your social media presence so you get the clicks, likes and engagement to grow your business. All within the budget you set, because none of this needs to cost the earth.  And the job doesn’t stop when your website goes live. We are your virtual business partner.

https://www.korio.co.nz
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