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• Steering MPP's community COVID-19 response

  07 April 2022
  A dedicated and focused Ministry for Pacific Peoples (MPP) Regional Partnerships team hit the ground running when New Zealand shifted once more to Alert Level 4 at 11:59pm on August 17.
  Ready at the helm, to steer his team’s engagement with Pasifika throughout the national lockdown and outbreak of C…
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• Stepping up to serve Pacific Aotearoa

  01 April 2022
  Resilience, strength, and the ability to adapt easily to change are just some of the traits Teara Leaupepe Timoteo brings to the Ministry for Pacific Peoples Communications, Media, and Marketing team. The Senior Advisor remembers learning these traits during her childhood, and they have come in hand…
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• Novel Coronavirus update

  01 April 2022
  As we watch the numbers of cases in China of the novel coronavirus increase exponentially every day, there is growing angst among communities.  This update briefs us about what measures are being taken and what is happening currently throughout New Zealand with regards to the virus. There have been…
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• Pacific Building Affordable Homes Fund (closed)

  20 October 2022
  Building Affordable Homes Fund…
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• Truth-seeker is made first Pacific woman Partner at Deloitte

  08 April 2022
  Amy Dove (pictured) has always been a truth-seeker and concerned about ensuring justice is always served.
  Of Samoan descent, has recently been appointed to the Deloitte Pås Peau aiga as Deloitte’s first Pacific woman Partner.
  As a Risk Advisory, Forensic Discovery, Data and Analytics Partner in the…
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• Poet honoured for Pacific stories

  13 April 2022
  New Zealand-Samoan poet and children’s author Tusiata Avia says being a creative involved in the arts is a strange life, and maybe not everyone's idea of a successful career choice.
  However, writing is her passion and she is grateful she has been able to make it her career – and a successful on…
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• A heart for Pacific health

  03 April 2022
  With heart disease one of the most common causes of death and disease among Pacific adults, the new Chief Advisor Pacific for the New Zealand Heart Foundation (NZHF) Dr Collin Tukuitonga is looking forward to trying to reduce the harm heart disease causes.  
  Working with the New Zealand Heart Founda…
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• A collective voice for Pacific women in Aotearoa

  07 April 2022
  For four decades, PACIFCA Incorporated has provided an avenue for Pacific women in Aotearoa to be a collective voice, to champion good causes, and to effect real change at the grass roots level and beyond. 
  The national non-government organisation (NGO) was established following a Pacific women’s’ c…
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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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• 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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