You Are Not Alone - MATES Cafe South Island NZ

​​MATES Cafe is a network of everyday people of all cultures and ethnicity (including teens, elders and lgbt+) who are trained to meet with a person in crisis or isolation at a local cafe, and provide emotional support and encouragement.​
​MATES Cafe will empower your life so you can in turn empower the lives of others in need.

MATES are here:

To help people of all ages, gender, culture, ethnicity and personal beliefs through the challenges and tough times of life including relationship breakdown, depression, anxiety, loss and grief, bullying, loneliness and isolation. MATES are trained to be there for someone in need and helping them through a point of crisis in their life. It's not about therapy, fixing or giving advice, just simply listening and helping them to find new direction in their life.

South Island NZ - MATES Cafe Network

A Call-Out to ALL!
Can You Spare ONE Hour of Your Life to Save a Life?

MATES Cafe is purely about saving lives. Do you realise one person completes suicide every 13 hours in New Zealand because they are unable to stand the emotional trauma they are undergoing, often caused by relationship breakdown.

Every 4 minutes 1 New Zealander has suicidal thoughts and needs a MATE to turn to.

MATES need your help to drastically lower the suicide rate... are you with us?
Saving someones life can be to either:
  1. Help them navigate in a new direction, and potentially prevent them from killing themselves...
  2. Help them to find support and hope to move forward in rebuilding their new life...
  3. Help spare the pain and anguish of all those around them that will be affected for the rest of their lives, if they go through with it... spouses, ex-spouses, children, friends, friends of friends, workmates, colleagues, school friends many more...​
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New Zealand - South Island

Information about New Zealand

Number of people counted
Total population
  • 4,027,947 people usually live in New Zealand. This is an increase of 290,667 people, or 7.8 percent, since the 2001 Census.
Population of New Zealand, 2006 Census 
  • Male  1,965,618
  • Female  2,062,329
  • Total  4,027,947
Māori ethnic population
  • 565,326 Māori usually live in New Zealand, an increase of 39,048 people, or 7.4 percent, since the 2001 Census.
Māori Population of New Zealand, 2006 Census 
  • Male  274,860
  • Female  290,469
  • Total  565,326
Note: The Māori ethnic group population is the count for people of the Māori ethnic group. It includes those people who stated Māori as being either their sole ethnic group or one of several ethnic groups.  
Number of dwellings counted
  • For New Zealand as a whole, there are 1,478,709 occupied dwellings and 159,276 unoccupied dwellings.
  • There are 13,560 dwellings under construction in New Zealand.
Dwellings in New Zealand, 2006 Census Dwelling status      
  • Occupied Private  1,471,746    
  • Non-private  6,963    
  • Total  1,478,709
  • Unoccupied  159,276
  • Under construction  13,560
  • Total  1,651,542
Note: This data has been randomly rounded to protect confidentiality. Individual figures may not add up to totals, and values for the same data may vary in different text, tables and graphs.

MATES North Island Centres (Click Here)
​MATES South Island Centres (Click Here)