our programs
Ladies Thursday Lunch Programme
FREE Every Thursday at Senior Citizens Hall 3B Wairere Avenue Mt Albert (behind Rocket Park) 10:30 to 2:00pm The group is a great place for a delicious lunch and to meet and establish new friendships whilst learning about different cultures and traditions. Guest speakers each week on healthy living, parenting, education, employment, cultures, training, safety in your home, basic first aid and budgeting (and many different topics)
Driving Licence Programmes
Waka Kotahi and VTNZ ser up mobile Learner Licence Mother-tongue Tests at Umma Trust
With huge demand for refugee mother-tongue learner licence tests mobile test site set up at Umma Trust – 100 learners scheduled to pass this year.
Graduation 2023 for Restricted, Full and Conversion Licence passers
In partnership with Puketepapa Community Driving School, lessons are run all year for refugee learners.
Digital Literacy
For Mothers on how to control your children’s devices
Ladies who speak Arabic or Somali
For session times ph: 09 815 0 153
Ferndale House, 830 New North Road Mt Albert
Please bring your children’s devices to the first session
Te Puta Ora Food Secure Programme
Fresh vegetables are a scarce resource in many families with the high cost so 2 new projects began in 2023.
Firstly, MSD funded through Te Puta Ora, gardens to support The Umma Trust Halal Foodbank.
Secondly, Umma Trust approached Kainga Ora who agreed that vegetable boxes could be planted in whanua homes and supported to be maintained.
18 gardens have been planted in Kainga Ora refugee whanau homes – they say they did not know vegetables could taste like this – so different from store bought.
Tigrinya Learner Licence Class
Every Saturday 10 – 12 Wesley Community Centre Matuku Room
Mothers and Children Programmes
Children are a great blessing from Allah. With their tender hearts, children can be moulded into righteous people only with a positive and tender approach.
Islam considers children to be an amanah (trust) given to the family and says it is fard (obligatory) for the family to raise a child in a righteous manner.
The children have certain rights over their parents; it is the family’s obligation to shelter, feed, clothe, educate, support, nurture, and love them.
To build shared experiences in the wider world of Auckland City mothers and children participate for free in visits to experiences otherwise unknown or unaffordable: Auckland Zoo / Kelly Tarlton / Mt Albert Pools/ One Tree Hill / Butterfly Creek / Jump and many other Auckland beaches and parks.
ADHB Pregnant Mothers Programme
ADHB runs workshops for small groups of pregnant mothers to prepare for births in Auckland hospitals. They are run as requested by young mothers.
Financial Literacy
Families work from their own cultural and spiritual perspective to plan weekly, monthly and annual budgeting and are connected to on line banking / Real Me / WINZ etc to enable control over family income and expenditure and longer term financial planning.
Workshops are offered at times advertised in mother-tongue languages on specific days for those with limited computer skills.