Associate Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Hon Carmel Sepuloni has announced an opening date of 21 September for the Pasifika Festivals Initiative that will provide funds for Pasifika festivals across Aotearoa to help recover from the impact of COVID-19. Speaking at today’s National Pasifika Festivals Zono, Carmel Sepuloni said the fund will help ensure the financial […]
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From Monday it will be compulsory for everyone in New Zealand aged 12 and over to wear a face covering on public transport and planes under Alert Level 2 and above, with certain exemptions for health, disability and practicality reasons. Health Minister Chris Hipkins said any form of face covering will do, and if you
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The New Zealand Government has set aside hundreds of millions of dollars to access a Covid-19 vaccine as soon as it becomes available, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Research, Science and Innovation Minister Megan Woods announced today. The Prime Minister said she was in talks with world leaders about global vaccine development, including Angela Merkel,
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Women from the Auckland Region Women’s Corrections Facility (ARWCF) have made 400 face masks to be distributed to marae and Pasifika health and social service providers in South Auckland, this week.
The prisoners wanted to contribute to the Covid-19 health efforts in a positive way, by producing something that would be useful for Pacific families, who may not be able to afford masks to protect themselves.
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By Saunoamaali’i Karanina Sumeo – Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) Commissioner for the New Zealand Human Rights Commission Leaving Pacific people behind by not addressing the indignities and inequities they suffer is not an option, writes Saunoamaali’i Karanina Sumeo Pacific communities have shown to the rest of New Zealand what collective empowerment looks and feels like,
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GP and Pacific Health Leader Dr Api Talemaitoga is one of the new members of the COVID-19 Surveillance and Testing Strategy Group announced today by Minister of Health Chris Hipkins. The group, co-chaired by Sir Brian Roche and Heather Simpson, is set up to provide additional advice to the Government and oversee its surveillance and
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SOURCE: www.rnz.co.nz All international air travel to and from Samoa has been temporarily suspended, effective immediately. The amendment to the State of Emergency includes repatriation flights and coincides with an extension of Level 3 Covid-19 Alert Level in the New Zealand city of Auckland. Samoa’s Prime Minister said the decision was made because of the
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By Liu Chen, Reporter for www.rnz.co.nz South Auckland doctors are setting up their own Covid-19 test sites to encourage anxious communities at the heart of the current outbreak. South Seas Healthcare and Baderdrive Doctors are joining forces to offer pop-up testing facilities at churches. The move coincides with a government plan to ramp up testing
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Poet Grace Iwashita-Taylor / Mama G extends her love letter to South Auckland – part of the Mana Pasifika Project aimed at helping our Pasifika communities deal with the mental impact of Covid-19.
“As children of the Moana, wellness is collective”
Poem by Grace Iwashita-Taylor
Sound by Brandon Haru
Visual by Canaan Ene
Thanks to Mapu Maia and Vaka Tautua
Funded by the Health Promotion Agency (HPA)
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More than 13,000 Pacific families have received support packages from various Pacific organisations since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the country in March this year. But John Kiria from the Mt Wellington Integrated Healthcare in Auckland says there are still families who are too shy to come forward and he wants to assure them that there
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