About Us

Us

Aotearoa Latin American Community Incorporated (ALAC Inc) works with communities in their resettlement positive, working, and taking into account their potentialities, talents and abilities to give you opportunities under the principles of well-being (The Good life) and Te Tiriti O Waitangi.

Our goal is to be an effective and accessible, recognizing the needs of all people in a way that is consistent with their values, social, economic, political, cultural, and spiritual.

Mission and Values

The mission of the ALAC, Inc. is to provide all Latin americans and spaniards in New Zealand, access to social services and cultural, holistic, culturally appropriate, bilingual and insurance, which will lead to an independent life and a resettlement positive in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
ALAC Inc. defends the respect and promotion of human dignity, solidarity, culture, diversity, non-discrimination and integrity as core values that inspire all services and activities in the context of our operations.
For these reasons, we support, educate, and equip them to the Latin american and Spanish as well as other ethnic communities in Aotearoa/New Zealand, guiándolas towards a productive, healthy life, and recognizing the importance of Tāngata Whenua and principles maori aligned with our own purpose, as aroha (giving without expecting return), whanaungatanga (connectivity), whakapapa (where you are and where you belong), mana/manaaki (building mana, nurturing, growing and challenging), kōrero awhi (positive communication and actions), and tikanga (doing things well according to the values).
In our constitution, we also adhere to the key principles of Te Tiriti O Waitangi, in particular to the three fundamental principles, Protection (Manaakitanga), Participation (Whanaungatanga) and Autonomy (Tino Rangatiratanga) as a foundation in our application of community development practice.

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History

1974: Arrive in New Zealand the first families of chilean refugees who were fleeing the Pinochet dictatorship.

1987: Refugee Families form CORELATINA in Auckland (Commission for Latin America Refugees).
A research involving families of refugees on resettlement carried out by Amnesty International & CORELATINA. The research was presented at the First Conference on Mental Health of Refugees held in Wellington.

1989: Arrival of first refugees from El Salvador and Guatemala, supported by CORELATINA.

1993: End of CORELATINA and subsequent creation ALAC Inc. in October of 1993.

1994: ALAC Inc. formally established with its first project House Latin in Onehunga, Auckland. It organized the First Summer Camp for Young people. Published for the first time Voices from the South.

1995: Festival of the Sun (1), A Cultural Festival is held in Auckland at the University of Auckland and Freeman''s Bay. Attracts 5,000 visitors.

1997: performing the Festival of the Sun (2) with an exhibition of the art roving and a reading of Paul the poetry of Neruda in the Public Library of Auckland by Kevin Ireland, Sam Hunt and Rolando Olmedo.

1997: it represents the work of Victor in the Hopetown Alpha.
1997: accomplished Tūhonotanga, an art exhibition with artists māori and Latin america.

1998: Showcase exhibition of photographs of Tirana and one of the Fundación Pablo Neruda held in the Centre, Aotea, Auckland.

1999: opens The Tango Bar as a Café-Restaurant of training in Auckland.

2000: ALAC opens its first home emergency, House of Friends.

2006: opens the Library of Latin Letters.

2010: ALAC opens their second home in Onehunga as a crisis center.

2014: cover the Editorial Letras Latinas. His first two publications Toccata to get the short story Contest Public, and Latin Letters.

2015: the 1st Camp of Community Leadership in Ngaruawahia with 27 participants. He has become an annual event, with up to 120 participants.

2016: Latin Letters publishes his third book, the Twelve Heavens/Nga-Rangi-Tekau-Ma-Rua/Twelve Heavens. This is an anthology trilingual poetry māori: te reo, English and
Spanish.

2017: Gazes of the Diversity is consolidated as the main cultural event to promote the participation of the community in the arts annually. The first version hosted an exhibition of photographs in the context of an art workshop with the same name that was given by ALAC Inc.

2018: launches Live the Life, the fourth publication of the Latin Letters with the collaboration of 18 Latin american authors resident in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Volume
it was designed to commemorate the 125th anniversary of universal suffrage, female in New Zealand.

2019: march 15, ALAC, Inc enroll to become an umbrella organization for the
Project TAMKIN.

2020: ALAC Inc. it becomes an essential service during Covid 19, and Alac Informs goes to air. Starts the research of the national community.

2021: ALAC Inc. open offices around the country.

2022: Ako for Children, permanent exhibition Memory and Resistance, Day of the Family, and the publication of BUILDING ROOTS.

Our Experience

Our goal is to be an effective and accessible, recognizing the needs of all people in a way that is consistent with their values, social, economic, political, cultural, and spiritual.