New targets quietly approved by DHBs in 2019 are aimed at turning this situation around. These include recording employee ethnicity, employing a Māori workforce that reflects Māori population proportionally for their region by 2030, and Māori staff turnover being no greater than DHB turnover for all staff. There are also targets around cultural competency training being delivered for all DHB staff in their interactions with Māori patients and whānau. Debbie became a registered nurse to care for her whānau, but she feels her Māori identity has been an obstacle to career progression.
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Anita Jessett is a solo mother of five who has survived domestic violence. She lives with three of her children, including two with special needs, and works hard to make ends meet.
As the sting of Covid-19 hits home, Making Ends Meet, an ongoing series by reporter VICKI ANDERSON and visual journalist CHRIS SKELTON, offers a voice to those living and working on the frontlines of poverty. Anita Jessett is painfully aware of the “always negative stereotype” of a solo mum on a benefit. “I’d like to see the haters try to manage,’’ she says, rolling a cigarette in her Kainga Ora home in Aranui, Christchurch. “The beneficiary bashers . because of Covid, more people are finding out how hard it is.
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Three years ago, Tauteave Junior Sauaga was homeless while undergoing gruelling treatment for lung cancer. Now he has a home, and is working to change negative attitudes towards the homeless.
As the sting of Covid-19 hits home, Making Ends Meet by reporter VICKI ANDERSON and visual journalist CHRIS SKELTON, offers a voice to those living and working on the frontlines of poverty. Tauteave “Junior” Sauaga knows that if he doesn t dress correctly, people won t give him a second of their time. He walks Christchurch’s streets in his best clothes seeking redemption using a battered black manilla folder filled with photocopied pages telling his life story.
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