Καλώς ορίσατε and Welcome to the Official Hellenic New Zealand Congress Site

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Welcome to the Hellenic New Zealand Congress Website.

The Hellenic New Zealand Congress Inc is a registered charitable non-profit organisation. Our purpose is to foster better understanding, goodwill and friendly realtions between the Hellenic communities and all New Zealanders.

Our objectives include to support, promote, educate and celebrate Hellenic and Greek society, culture, traditions, history, and language, past and present, to all New Zealanders. We also provide a forum to address matters of interest to people of Hellenic heritage and their good settlement in New Zealand.

Membership is welcomed from all New Zealanders and Hellenes. We also welcome institutional members, including organisations from the Greek and Cypriot Communities.

Upcoming Events

Greek Food Festival

Date:Saturday 26th February
Time: 10am until 3pm

Venue: Greek Community Centre, 1-5 Hania St, Mt Victoria Wellington

• Everyone is invited to celebrate the food of Greece. Enjoy authentic Greek cuisine like souvlaki, calamari, filled pita bread, vegetarian meals, lokoumades, baklava and many other treats.
• Come along and buy an icon or a bottle of olive oil and enjoy our food, music, and dancing and experience our Hellenic Culture. Your Committee will be supporting the festival.

Census 2011 – make your Greekness (hellenismous) count

The 2011 Census is an opportunity to express your Hellenic heritage and make your hellenismous (Greekness) count. In the past the Census has only recorded about 2000 Greeks in New Zealand. We know this figure is way too low. The next Census will be held on Tuesday, 8 March 2011. Everyone who is in New Zealand on that day must fill in a census form. The Census is completely confidential but your answers are important. Agencies use the information to plan services for communities and where they should be.

There are three questions where you can show your Hellenic identity (hellenismous).

• Question 11: Ethnicity – if you have Hellenic heritage, please write Greek or Cypriot, and any others that apply, in the space provided. This will help to identify the size of the Hellenic community in New Zealand.
• Question 13: Spoken Language – If you are able to have an everyday conversation in spoken Greek, please write Greek in the space provided. Please do not mark English if you have trouble being understood. This will help agencies to decide if free interpreting should be provided or to support Greek as a community language.
• Question 18: Religion – if your religion is Greek orthodox, please write this in the space provided. This will help to identify the Hellenic church community.

Please remind your friends and family to record their hellenismous in the 2011 Census. Get a copy of these instructions in English and Greek Census Notice.

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