Our mission and what we stand for

:: ACHIEVEMENT HOUSE’s mission is to create opportunities for disabled people to be engaged in work and social activities that are meaningful to them and to participate in communities of their choosing.

To achieve this, we aspire to the following values and attitudes in the way we interact with our people, our clients and our community:

• Kind and tolerant
• Meaningful and of use
• Predictable, stable and consistent
• Honest in our intent
• Competent and of purpose to the lives of people

We work to meet the Principles of Enabling Good Lives:

• Self-determination
• Beginning early
• Person-centred
• Ordinary life outcomes
• Mainstream first
• Mana enhancing
• Easy to use
• Relationship building

Our vision

To empower disabled persons to chose how they live their lives.

Our mission

To provide disabled people in the community with caring, stimulating work and social environment, including support and advocacy, empowering them to live happy and fulfilling lives.

Images: The street entrance to our premises in Wilson St, Kemureti / Cambridge (main photo), and how the sun casts nature’s art beside our trade entrance.

He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tāngata! He tāngata! He tāngata!

What is the most important thing in the world? It is the people! It is the people! It is the people!

Phil Brown’s photograph of Maungatautari (‘mountain of the upright stick’) greets visitors to Achievement House.