Reverend Fatu Tufuga of the Manurewa Samoan Methodist Church delivered a powerful ‘Positive messages from the Pulpit’ sermon last month to more than 100 parishioners. The sermon was supported by testimonies from family members of people with disabilities, and was...
Le Va invited Christchurch board member and youth leader Josiah Tuamali’i to write about his experiences in the latest Christchurch earthquakes. You can also read more from him in The Wireless Shake Up series. Josiah is a New Zealand born Samoan who grew up in...
If you have the ability to share, you have the ability to save.” This is something I constantly remind myself when delivering the two-day FLO Talanoa Facilitator training. It is from my personal experience of loss that I am able to provide a ‘familial’ perspective...
By guest contributor Charlizza Harris The Smoke & Mirrors Project is the brainchild of award winning playwright and youth development worker Charlizza Harris who has brought together elements of business, social enterprise, performing arts, youth development and...
Le Va delivered three disability focused Engaging Pasifika cultural competency programmes last month which were attended by nearly 60 members of the New Zealand Disability Support Network (NZDSN). NZDSN is an association of disability support service providers and...
