CIF AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND

Welcome to our website. We hope you will find something of interest here, whether you are interested in learning more about Aotearoa and our programme, or about programmes offered elsewhere in the world. There is much to be gained by having this international experience. Friends are made, understanding is deepened, and knowledge is shared. We learn that in spite of our differences, and the way we practice Social Work, the essence at the core of our profession is the same wherever we live, and that is what unites us!

E te Manuwhiri Tuarangi, whakatau ra mai ki tenei pae tukutuku. Ko te tumanako, ka tupono atu koe ki tetehi mea pai, i a koe e ata titiro ana ki ta matou hotaka, ki tetehi atu ranei, no iwi ke. He nui tonu nga hua ka puta i a koe e whakaaronui ana kia rere tawahi atu. Heoti ano, he ahakoa nga rereketanga o te Tauwhiro Tangata, ko te kaupapa ke tatou e whakakotahi ai.

CIF Aotearoa/New Zealand is a non-profit, Charitable Trust established in 2003, and is a National Branch affiliated to CIF International. We also have links with CIPUSA.

CIF exchange programmes have the following objectives:

o To share professional knowledge in the field of human services, in particular social work, and to learn from one another

o To promote tolerance, understanding, and peace among people from different countries and cultures

The programme is a unique opportunity for social workers to travel to a different country, while viewing it through a social work perspective. It provides experiences of local family life, agency visits or placements, and interaction with social workers from around the world. CIF Exchange Programmes offer participants a way to further their professional development in an international context. There is time to learn, reflect on practice, form friendships and experience difference.

President: Cindy Penny 
15 Fergusson Avenue 
Sandringham
Auckland 1025
Aotearoa/New Zealand

General Information
cifanz@yahoo.co.nz