Rotorua Traditional Maori Healing/Romiromi Workshop
0emailprintWhere: Te Roro o Te Rangi Marae, Ohinemutu,Rotorua Date: March Saturday 3,Sunday 4, 2012 Kaiako: Wikitoria Oman Based on the teachings of Papa Hohepa De La Mere, this Waananga is open to any health worker, practitioner of bodywork or spiritual seeker. Wikitoria Maori Healing has a mission to train Romiromi/Mirimiri Practitioners through the ancient law [...]
Water Safety New Zealand – in conjunction with sponsor New Zealand Post – is launching a campaign aimed squarely at improving the water safety skills of Maori. The campaign – Kia Maanu, Kia Ora! [also called Stay Afloat Stay Alive] – is in response to the consistent over representation of Maori in New Zealand’s drowning [...]
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Whooping cough cases in Gisborne have doubled over the past month. “The total number of cases over the past couple of months has risen to 30,” Tairawhiti District Health medical officer of health Geoffrey Cramp said. Dr Cramp said that while adults often caught whooping cough, babies under the age of 1 were more severely [...]
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Three new television commercials are being developed for BreastScreen Aotearoa and will go to air in February 2012. The current campaign has performed very well, but is now over three years old and it is time for a refresh. Increasing the number of Maori and Pacific women having regular mammograms remains a priority – although [...]
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Instructions for Life by The Dalai Lama Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson. Follow the three R’s: - Respect for self, - Respect for others and - Responsibility for all your actions. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a [...]
Continue reading …Hawke’s Bay District Health Board says it is making every effort to reduce the high rate of Maori infant mortality. The board’s Maori Health Director, Tracee Te Huia, says the most recent figures from 2008 show nine Maori babies die per 1000 live births – almost three times the rate of non-Maori. She says because [...]
Continue reading …Fight against rheumatic fever key priority in new Maori Party/Nat ageement
December 14, 2011 No Comment
Money for the government-funded programme to fight rheumatic fever will be doubled to $24 million under a new agreement between National and the Maori Party. The extra $12 million over four years will extend the current $12 million rheumatic fever programme. The programme, announced in May, uses school-based sore throat services, local coordination of frontline [...]
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KTV Consulting, a Wellington-based company which assists Maori organisations (Governance Boards undertaking Governance training through to helping administration staff set up filing systems) is set to expand in the new year. Karen Vercoe (Te Arawa), owner and Principal Consultant of KTV Consulting Ltd, told TangataWhenua.com, “Our relationships with our clients are paramount and I feel [...]
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Te ORA signs Collaboration Agreement with the Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand Te ORA Today, Te Ohu Rata O Aotearoa (Te ORA) Maori Medical Practitioners Association signed a collaboration agreement with the Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand (Medical Deans) as a commitment to improve Maori health equality in Aotearoa. The Medical Deans is [...]
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Te Pataka Uara Te Rau Matatini with support from Te Ao Auahatanga Maori Innovations Fund is pleased to announce a new workforce development programme, a whanau-centred initiative called Te Pataka Uara (the storehouse of valuable resources) Te Pataka Uara is an indigenous framework that acknowledges the valuable role whanau play in the delivery of whanau [...]
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