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It’s Mangere’s turn to AFu (Active Futures) continued from page one enjoyed by all ages together. Families were encouraged to have their 4 year olds complete a B4 School Health Check with either Plunket or a Well Child provider before they start school. Local business, Countdown Mangere Mall & Airport Mangere, The Warehouse Airport Mangere, Hubbard Foods collectively contributed free water, fruit and prizes. Local health providers such as Moana Nui A Kiwa; Turuki Health; Family Fit Club; Pacific Early Learning Mobile Outreach Service; Census NZ; Family Teeth Matters were on board to share their resources and information. Active Futures collaborated with local Dance Group Te Ao Moana who provided beautiful cultural dances from the Cook Islands. What is Active Futures? The Active Futures service is a comprehensive family based nutrition, activity, lifestyle and parenting skills programme for pre-school children in Counties Manukau who are identified as obese at their B4 School Check. Active participants (photo supplied) The service supports families to make and sustain a range of lifestyle changes that will have long lasting benefits to their health and wellbeing. The Active Futures programme is a brand new service in Mangere. Our team of Health Facilitators work alongside parents, offering families the opportunity to engage in a FREE home based and group based programme over 12 months enabling them to be their child’s first health and wellbeing coach! The programme is for children aged 3-5 year old from Counties Manukau. Support is provided through weekly sessions on Physical Activity, Nutrition, Parenting & Lifestyle. A consenting parent/caregiver must be able to attend each session with their child. For more information contact Family Based Services Coordinator Maddi Schmidt| maddi@otarahealth.org.nz| 027 274 8005| 09 274 8355 4
STUDENT VOICE MABUHAY! DE LA SALLE Teenagers of the Southside so often bear the brunt of their own scrutiny. Merely living in South Auckland betokens “the struggle is real”. Albeit due to the magnified media portrayal of our people, my perception of being poor was extraordinarily incorrect – finding out for myself walking through the trails of litter, through formidable humidity, through little hands out reaching for my bag. I was walking through Tondo, one of the Philippines’ most notorious ghettos – that saw no way of escaping her poverty. In early December 2017, following thousands of dollars of fundraising, fruitful immersion into cultures other than our own and months of eager anticipation, myself along with 17 of my fellow Lasallian brothers boarded a flight from Hong Kong en route to Manila, Philippines. Our 3-day stop there would mark the beginning of a stupendous adventure I will remember for the rest of my life. We went to the Philippines with a readiness to give back to the people, and so we did that mahi. There we plastered & landscaped the makings of multiple homes, shared hours of bonding with kindergarten-aged children, their families and neighbourhoods, met face-to-face with convicted prisoners among many other outreach activities. Service, a term discussed to us at school for so many years and without scripture meant virtually nothing, even we went into the community to do such a thing – now had substance. It was the interaction, hype and prosperity that us teenagers of the Southside were now exposed to some 8,000km away from the “brown bubble” that is. I attribute my changed view on the South Auckland struggle to the everso merry heart of the Filipino. Mahal kita. If I learnt anything from who I met along the way of our outreach, it was to live. By Mariner Fagaiava-Muller Hands around the land - Hei purupuru i te whenua Two years ago, in March 2016, the people of Tāmaki-makaurau showed their support for the people of Ihumātao in their struggle to protect their ancestral land from the /Fletcher Residential ‘development”. Hundreds joined hands around the land. Fletcher Building is still sticking to its ill-conceived plans to build 480 housing units on the land at Ihumātao. Now it is time for the people to show Fletcher Residential, (and the Council, and the Government), that this beautiful landscape must be saved from destruction, and protected for future generations under the mana of its tāngata whenua. Support the people of Ihumātao and join Hands around the Land, <strong>2018</strong>. Hei pupuru i te whenua! Some of the many community leaders who have spoken up to save the land: Kaumatua Joe Hawke and Haare Williams, Māngere MP and Minister of Pasifika Affairs, Aupito William Si’o, Green MP Marama Davidson, City Councillors Cathy Casey, Mike Lee and Efiso Collins, as well as Lemauga Lydia Sosene, Māngere-Otāhuhu Local board and many more. Help heal the wound that was opened in 1863 when the land was confiscated, a wound was re-opened when Fletcher Residential bought the land in 2016, ignoring the opposition of mana whenua, and the people of South Auckland. 5
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