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Managing and Coordinating Volunteers Course
Published August 25th 2009, Posted in NationalThe Fundraising Institute of New Zealand (FINZ), in collaboration with Xperts, is pleased to present the Managing and Coordinating Volunteers course to be run in September 2009.
This course is vital for all fundraisers working with volunteers. And as a distance learning course, can be completed from the comfort and convenience of your own office or home.
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iSign – Interpreter Booking Service
Published August 20th 2009, Posted in National
You are invited to the Whangarei launch of iSign – Interpreter Booking Service
iSign is a Deaf led Interpreter Booking Service established by Deaf Aotearoa NZ. Come along and find out more about this new Interpreter booking service and how you can use it.
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ASB Community Trust Meetings
Published August 19th 2009, Posted in National
ASB Community Trust is holding public meetings in Auckland and Northland to present its 2009 financial year results and discuss plans for the future.
The Auckland meeting is at Orakei Marae, on Kitemoana St, Orakei, on Monday 3 August.
The Northland meeting is in Kerikeri’s The Centre on Saturday, September 5.
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One in four adults have musculoskeletal disorders
Published August 19th 2009, Posted in NationalMedia release from Arthritis New Zealand
A recently released study, called “The Crippling Burden”, has given disturbing statistics on the impact of musculoskeletal disorders. The cost to New Zealand is now more than $5,570 million a year.
This is the first update since ‘The Economic Cost of Arthritis’ report was released in 2006, and the costs are only escalating.
There are over 850,000 New Zealanders who need to have their disorders given higher recognition by healthcare leaders. As it currently stands, arthritis isn’t one of the 13 health priorities.
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Oral history to be recorded in NZSL
Published August 19th 2009, Posted in NationalMedia Advisory 31 July 2009
Oral history in New Zealand will break new ground following this year’s allocation of awards for recording memories and life stories. For the first time a video oral history project will be recorded in New Zealand Sign Language, the country’s third official language, with money given to members of the Deaf community.
Northland Parents of Deaf Children has received $12,000 from the Australian Sesquicentennial Gift Trust Awards in Oral History to interview parents and their Deaf adult children. It is planned that interviews will be a pilot for a larger project.
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Getting older with Cerebral Palsy
Published July 29th 2009, Posted in NationalGetting older with cerebral palsy: strategies for positive ageing.
The University of Auckland and Auckland University of Technology (AUT) are just starting a study looking into people’s experiences of ageing with cerebral palsy.
Their study aims to find out more about how getting older affects people with cerebral palsy. We will be talking with people with CP aged over 35 years living in Auckland and the upper North Island about strategies they use to age positively and stay well.
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Access to public land transport
Published July 21st 2009, Posted in NationalReview of Progress towards accessible land transport - Disabled people’s views sought.
The Human Rights Commission is reviewing the progress towards making all public land transport services accessible to disabled people.
It is now three years since the Commission published the Accessible Journey report. As part of the process the Commission wants to hear about disabled people’s experience of using public land transport services.
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NZ Winter Games Make History
Published June 30th 2009, Posted in National / 1 Comment100% Pure New Zealand Winter Games a World First for Disabled Athletes
Medial Release - 29th June 2009
LAKE WANAKA, New Zealand 100% Pure New Zealand Winter Games is making history this August as the first elite snow sports event to have able bodied and athletes with a disability compete together.
100% Pure New Zealand Winter Games will provide the opportunity for both able bodied and athletes with a disability to race alongside each other in the alpine skiing and cross-country skiing disciplines. However, with valuable points available for Olympic and Paralympic qualification, the scoring system will be separate under FIS (Federation International de Ski) and IPC (International Paralympic Committee) regulations.
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Mita hungry to get into ring
Published June 25th 2009, Posted in National
Whangarei’s deaf boxer ready to step into the ring
Article and photo curtesy of Emily Kernot - The Whangarei Report
The man who is believed to be New Zealand’s only Maori deaf boxing fighter is stepping into the competition ring for the first time.
At 43-years-old, Whangarei’s Mita Moses has been told he’s too old to box, but that doesn’t bother him at all.
``I’ve been training for the past two years and eight months,’’ he says. ``And I love it. I’m hungry to get into the ring.’’
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We want access to services, not compassion
Published June 23rd 2009, Posted in National
The Health and Disability Commissioner is currently reviewing the Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994 (the Act) and the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code).
DPA NZ has sent a letter to the Health and Disability Commssion about the possible inclusion of the right to ‘Compassion’ being added to the existing rights under the code as suggested by the Compassion in Healthcare Trust.
Your thoughts are welcome on this subject and will be forward to DPA NZ, the National Assembly of People with Disabilities.
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The Brain Train day in Kaitaia was excellent, and we very much hope it will become an annual event! Thanks to all who worked to make it happen.