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• Language helps reconnect youth to roots

  05 April 2022
  Learning the language of her ancestors has helped 22-year-old Tiare (Rose) Roti Aro Atirai (pictured) reconnect with her aka (roots).   
  The New Zealand-born Cook Islander is learning the Kuki Airani Pukapuka dialect, as her father stems from the area, as well as the Manihiki dialect, where her moth…
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• Fale mo Aiga

  29 May 2025
  The Pacific Housing initiative is part of a government response to the growing housing needs of Pacific people in Aotearoa.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  There are few things more important to people than the home and communities they live in. Pacific Aotearoa is clear about the impor…
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• Research explores mental health of Pacific parents

  03 April 2022
  The response of the health system to the mental health needs of Pacific parents will be explored thanks to a Health Research Council (HRC) grant.
  Worth $600,000, the Pacific Project Grant was awarded to Dr Seini Taufa of Moana Research, an independent research organisation owned by six Pacific resea…
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• Leading others to make a difference

  02 April 2022
  Even at a young age, a life of leadership and service was evident for Leorida Peters, a 2015 Prime Minister’s Pacific Youth Award (PMPYA) recipient.  
  At just 17 years old, Leorida collected the Leadership and Inspiration award, sponsored by Air New Zealand, which saw her win a visit to New York Cit…
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• Social enterprise – where profits and social impact go hand in hand

  02 April 2022
  On June 18, a wide-range of innovators, thinkers and policy makers will come together for the inaugural New Dawn: Pacific Social Enterprise Forum, in Auckland.
  Social enterprises are illuminating new ways of doing business where profits and social impact go hand in hand.
  In today’s business landscap…
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• Future of the Pacific in focus

  11 April 2022
  The influences shaping the Pacific future will be under the spotlight at the upcoming New Zealand Institute of International Affairs (NZIIA) Pacific Futures conference, in Auckland.
  Staged in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Ministry of Defence, and Pacific Cooperation…
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• Toloa Scholarship opens door to Asia-Pacific opportunity

  01 April 2022
  Receiving a Toloa Scholarship has opened up a world of opportunity for William Ti'iti'i Asiata, who recently was part of the New Zealand delegation to attend the 33rd Asia-Pacific Roundtable (33APR). 
  Of Samoan descent, William was presented with a Ministry for Pacific Peoples Toloa Tertia…
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• Pacific language videos highlight study

  02 April 2022
  A Pacific language video series by Auckland University of Technology (AUT) will highlight the Pacific Islands Families (PIF) Study’s work in shaping resilient futures for Pacific communities in Aotearoa.
  The PIF Study – now in its 20th year – is the largest longitudinal study of its kind.
  Based at t…
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• Destination in sight for Tupu Toa intern

  17 February 2022
  (Picture caption: Marion Lavea, right, is Co-President of the Pacific Island Law Students Association (PILSA) at the University of Auckland, along with Iulia Autagavaia.)
  Perseverance is Marion Lavea’s middle name.
  The 26-year-old may have taken a slightly more twisty road to reach his goal but fol…
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• Challenging disconnect in the regions

  01 April 2022
  Feeling isolated and disconnected from the “Big Smoke” is a challenge Pacific people face in small town New Zealand – and within the Bay of Plenty is no exception. 
  Tauranga-based Educator and Chair of Pasifika in the Bay Trust Mel Cottingham brought some of these challenges into the spotlight at th…
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