First round winners will be announced at
the end of June 2021.
New Zealand champion motorcycle
racer, Avalon Biddle has been appointed the official
ambassador for the programme. Biddle made sporting history
in 2019 when she became the first woman to win New Zealand s
Supersport 600 title, the coveted crown of New Zealand
motorcycling racing.
“Being the ambassador for a
programme like this is a real privilege. The scholarship is
designed to celebrate and encourage talented young kiwis to
thrive and I will be personally supporting this year’s
winners with mentoring sessions and guidance”.
As a
New Zealand owned and operated company, MTF Finance prides
Thursday, 25 February 2021, 4:19 pm
The
promise was that by 2020, no child will be born with HIV or
newly infected with HIV during breastfeeding across the
world. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic posed an
unprecedented challenge to health systems, the progress
towards the HIV-related 2020 goalpost, despite some
commendable gains, was not very encouraging.
Despite
global efforts to prevent HIV transmission, 150,000 children
were either born with or were newly infected with HIV during
breastfeeding in 2019, bringing the total number of children
(aged 0 to 9 years) living with HIV to 1.1 million. Also,
about 310
children died from AIDS-related causes every day in
2019, mostly because of inadequate access to HIV prevention,
Tuesday, 23 February 2021, 12:41 pm
Children’s advocacy collective Five to Thrive
is calling for immediate increases to income support, in the
wake of the release of the official annual Child Poverty
statistics by Stats NZ today.
Dr Claire
Achmad, General Manager Advocacy at Barnardos, says that the
statistics released today show that the increases already
made to income support by the Government are having some
positive impact, but much more is needed. The decreases
across the child poverty measures are not enough to mitigate
the impact that COVID-19 and the rising cost of housing are
having on children and families with the lowest
Thursday, 18 February 2021, 11:37 am
Neurodiversity is one of the great unaddressed issues of
our time, says Children’s Commissioner Judge Andrew
Becroft, who will address the Belief Change Family Journey
forum in Queenstown this weekend.
This year’s Forum
is hosted by Dyslexia Foundation of New Zealand, sponsored
by Cookie Time Charitable Trust. Judge Becroft, keynote
speaker at the Forum, will talk about the critical
importance of whānau/family in the wellbeing and resilience
of children with neurodevelopmental issues, including
dyslexia.
“In the words of one child: ‘really,
just people who really believe in you is the most essential
thing in having a good life – and people who support you
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