Press Release – Sunrise Foundation What started as a chance meeting by Wainui Beach School (WBS) ex-Board of Trustees Chair Ailsa Cuthbert in Vietnam has led to the establishment of the WBS endowment fund at Sunrise. Ailsa, who travels to Vietnam regularly for work, met Hien Nguyen …
What started as a chance meeting by Wainui Beach School (WBS) ex-Board of Trustees Chair Ailsa Cuthbert in Vietnam has led to the establishment of the WBS endowment fund at Sunrise.
Ailsa, who travels to Vietnam regularly for work, met Hien Nguyen in a shop next to her office in Ho Chi Minh City. Hien not only sells bags but teaches other women how to make them, which they do mainly at home at night, as a second income when their children are asleep.
Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 10:47 am
What started as a chance meeting by Wainui Beach School
(WBS) ex-Board of Trustees Chair Ailsa Cuthbert in Vietnam
has led to the establishment of the WBS endowment fund at
Sunrise.
Ailsa, who travels to Vietnam regularly for
work, met Hien Nguyen in a shop next to her office in Ho Chi
Minh City. Hien not only sells bags but teaches other women
how to make them, which they do mainly at home at night, as
a second income when their children are asleep.
Ailsa
says she popped in to look at the brightly coloured bags and
Guardian Angels: The red and yellow army keeping our beaches safe this summer
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By: Joanna Wane
Joanna Wane pays tribute to the yellow and red army – and a new generation of rookies – who ll be making our beaches safer this summer. Surf patrols hadn t started for the season at Wainui Beach when word spread like wildfire late last year that Six60 were coming to town.
It was mid-November and the sea off Gisborne s sunshine coast was still witheringly cold, but a dozen volunteer lifeguards had been rustled up to keep an eye on the crowd. The day was a sizzler and around 7000 people arrived at the Wainui Surf Life Saving Club to watch the band play a free gig on the deck. Then everyone headed down for a swim after the show.