​​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.
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MATES Cafe Facilitators:
Trained to be there for someone in need and helping them through a point of crisis in their life in a local cafe over a cuppa. It's not about therapy, fixing or giving advice, just simply listening and helping them to find new direction in their life.
MATES Cafe Supports:
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

Te Kauwhata 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 someone’s 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...​

Te Kauwhata

Te Kauwhata is a small town in the north of the Waikato region of New Zealand, situated close to the western shore of Lake Waikare, some 40 km north of Hamilton. The township population in 2006 was 1294 with perhaps up to 13,000 in surrounding areas[citation needed].

Te Kauwhata is the site of a diverse range of farms, including dairy and dry stock, as well as extensive horticulture. Of note is that Te Kauwhata, or "TK" as the locals say, is bordered by the largest swamp in the southern hemisphere, otherwise known as the Whangamarino Swamp.

Te Kauwhata has a primary school, a College, which runs from years 7 through to year 13, and two early childhood learning centres. Te Kauwhata has numerous sporting venues, most notably the Local Rugby Football Club and Te Kauwhata College which collectively boast a selection of rugby and football fields, squash courts, netball courts, golf courses and cricket pitches. There is also a community fitness centre with gym and swimming pool, located at the College, a retirement village (Aparangi) and an outdoor bowling green.

Viticulture Te Kauwhata lies at the centre of one of New Zealand's smaller wine-producing regions, which stretches from Pukekohe, just south of Auckland, across to Thames and Paeroa at the foot of the Coromandel Peninsula. The region is particularly notable for its Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Sauvignon blanc wines.[1]

A government research station was set up in 1886 to explore different crop options. Romeo Bragato took over the running of this station in 1901,[2] with the first wine produced there in 1903.[3] The research station is now in private hands, as part of Rongopai wines, which has been subsequently bought out by Babich Wines, but the original buildings are still in use as a cellar door.