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​Off the Couch Trust, based in Manakau, received funding through Le Va’s Pasifika Suicide Prevention Community Fund for its initiative Sau Loto. For the Trust’s CE Buck Stowers, the initiative means people can be ‘free’ from suicide by incorporating exercise, life coaching, trusted mentoring and nurturing family relationships, which build individual resilience and stronger Pasifika families and communities.

Le Va has signed a memorandum of agreement with the Tongan Princess Her Royal Highness Princess Angelika Lātūfuipeka Tuku’aho so that more work can be done to prevent suicide in Tongan communities in both countries.   

The latest addictions sector Leadership Day was held in Auckland this month, hosted by Matua Raki, the National Committee for Addiction Treatment (NCAT) and the Kotahitanga Whānau Ora Collective.

We have been up and down the country over the past two months supporting our church leaders and congregations to have open discussions about Pasifika peoples with disabilities, and their acceptance within Pasifika churches. 

We continue our profile of our FLO ambassadors network this month by highlighting three of our members: Poko Ngaro, Alisi Tatafu and Epi Elisara. 

In July, the Le Va team joined about eight other presenters for a one-day Perinatal Mental Health workshop at the University of Auckland, East Tamaki Campus.