72-year-old Nanny Te Okeroa Wheeler has lived in South Auckland for over 20 years. Her ongoing mission to feed the hungry carries on today where she prepared kai for over 1600 whānau.
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Poverty and rangatahi major concerns in Tairāwhiti
Combating poverty and supporting rangatahi are two areas community leaders in Te Tairāwhiti want to see better supported, and a community trust is hoping to help make this happen by providing funding assistance.
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Colonisation still impacting on food insecurity
Today is World Food Day and the Auckland City Mission have released their research on food insecurity.
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News‘Extremely difficult to read’ tamariki have their say about living in residential care
Children's Commissioner Andrew Becroft has today released a new report where children and young people say, in their own words, what it's like to live in secure residential care.
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"Stop the smoking thing, and sing"
Tūranga Healths’ new 'Auahi Kore-oke' programme encourages locals to quit smoking by using the medium of singing and competition.
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Save Our Tamariki, Save our Future campaign hits Gisborne streets
'Save our Tamariki, Save our Future' is a national campaign protesting against the child uplift practices of Oranga Tamariki. Spokesperson for the Gisborne branch, Tuta Ngarimu says the aim to prevent traumatic child uplifting incidents taking place at all.
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Māori housing experts gather under one roof
Over three hundred researchers have gathered at Wellington's Te Papa Museum to share innovative ideas of how to best tackle housing issues for Māori.
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Fast food workers make stand at Auckland KFC
Members of Unite Union stormed through a West Auckland KFC during strike action claiming that Restaurant Brands is refusing to match minimum wage increases and seriously understaffing restaurants among their three companies, Pizza Hut, Carl's Jr and KFC.
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Warriors star Blair returns to his old school with raincoats
Today the kids at Te Kura o Otangarei got a big surprise when Vodafone Warriors star Adam Blair and his teammates returned to his old school to surprise them with new raincoats courtesy of KidsCan.
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Calling for a pokie-free Tairāwhiti
Elizabeth Crawford, chairperson of Kapai Kaiti in Gisborne, wants to rid Tairawhiti of pokie machines because of the harm they inflict on Māori whānau. This follows the closure of problem-gambling service Te Ara Tika which Crawford says leaves people with gambling problems without support.
