Young mum embarks on healthcare career
31 Jan, 2021 09:13 PM
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Training For You graduate Keely Aitchison is thriving in her new career, at Springvale Manor Rest Home. Photo / Karen Hughes/Training For You
Last year, she made a big change. When my son started into after-school care, it opened up an opportunity for me to get back into school, and move forward with a bit of a future, for both of us, she says.
Keely enrolled in a free programme of study in healthcare, with Whanganui tertiary provider Training For You.
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Graduates of the programme are awarded the New Zealand Certificate in Health and Wellbeing, Level 2.
As healthy 65-year-olds scramble to find scarce COVID-19 vaccines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, thousands of vulnerable people in those states’ highest priority group people who live in nursing homes and assisted living facilities are still waiting for shots. They are part of a federal program that gave pharmacy giants CVS and Walgreens the responsibility of going from facility to .
How MLK’s death affected a nation, as told by those who remember it
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy in a march on behalf of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn., days before King was shot and killed.
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Martin Luther King Jr. had traveled to Memphis, Tenn., in late March 1968 to lead a protest march in support of the city’s striking sanitation workers. Violence had followed, with police descending on the protesters with billy clubs, mace and tear gas.
The next week, King returned to get court permission for another march. Despite the death threats he had received, and the growing concern for his safety, King pressed to hold a nonviolent demonstration.