A global peace movement is set to take its first steps in Waitakere.
Mayor Bob Harvey will host the flame lighting ceremony for the World March for Peace and Non-violence on September 17. It will take place in front of a full assembly at Glen Eden Intermediate School and will involve World March representat… Continue
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Skylight, an innovative support organisation helping young people and their families/whānau deal with change, loss, trauma and grief, is supporting World Suicide Prevention Day (September 10 2009).
Deaths by suicide in New Zealand outnumber the road toll, and internationally over a million deaths a year occur by suicide. Latest statistics indicate around 9 suicides each week… Continue
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An ad for WWF doing the rounds on the web last week showed several planes crashing into a burning World Trade Centre and compared it to the number of lives lost in the 2005 tsunami. The ad is now banned in the States.
Is it really bad taste or are WWF making a really good point? Have your say! Continue
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The Charities Commission is urging anyone thinking of volunteering or making a donation to a charity, to start by checking the information available on the Charities Register at www.charities.govt.nz.
The Register brings together comprehensive information about more than 23,000 charities on a public… Continue
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According to research from Sustainable Advantage over the last 6 months:44% of kiwis volunteered,
69% have helped out a neigbour ,67% talked to neighbours regularly, 66% have helped someone out at work
and 26% have helped organize a community event.
To find out more about this brilliant research go to www.sust… Continue
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Last nights news had a great piece about technology that will help save the planet - enormous engineering projects that will stabilise the planet by whitening the clouds, creating huge artificial trees and even satellites that will block the sun. The one thing they… Continue
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Chocolate cake, chocolate fudge, or straight from the block … whatever way you take it, there’s nothing quite like chocolate for satisfying a craving, delivering an energy hit and for sharing the love. It’s a rich treat—but it’s too often made using ingredients produced by the world’s poorest.
Chocolate we love. A whole lot less lovely are the harsh, unfair conditions e… Continue
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New Zealanders from around the country are being encouraged to seize the opportunity with both hands and learn the nation’s newest official language, sign language, in celebration of New Zealand Sign Language Week.
Deaf Aotearoa New Zealand is hosting more than 200 free Taster Sign Language classes throughout the country during New Zealand Sign Language Week (NZSL), which run… Continue
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By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor, The UK Independent
Top economists and United Nations leaders are working on a "Green New Deal" to create millions of jobs, revive the world economy, slash poverty and avert environmental disaster, as the financial markets plunge into their deepest crisis since the Great Depression.
The ambitious plan will call on world leaders, including th… Continue
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Todd Stern, US Climate Change Envoy for the United States said President Obama's administration was 'seized with the urgency of the task before us' at the opening session of international climate change Bonn talks.
Commenting on the speech, Ziaul Hoque Mukta, Oxfam's Bangladesh Programme Coordinator, said: "Nobody know… Continue
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We have all heard of Greenpeace, read articles about their non-violent protests in the paper, perhaps you have even considered volunteering with them? So, why not take the plunge?
Logan Petley joined Greenpeace as a volunteer in 1999 and hasn’t looked back since. He has been on three, six weeklong boating actions, and he has travelled to Antarctica and the Tasman Sea. While there are endle… Continue
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I worked in a town called Ho in Ghana for 5 weeks teaching young children in the Dr Asase Memorial Children’s Home and restored a Rehabilitation Centre for disabled people which was looking a bit worse for wear. Most of our time was spent on the Rehab Centre as it was a large building and there were only 2 volunteers taking part in our project.
In the beginning the restoration seemed impossible but with t… Continue
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“We will not gain anything today or in the months ahead if we become lost in hand-wringing and crystal-ball gazing about how bad things are or could be… What we do know is that we are in uncharted waters…Many words have and will be spoken about it… I’m here to do something about it…We are a gritty country with the smarts and determination needed to weather this storm. So let’s roll up our… Continue
The kōkako belongs to the endemic New Zealand wattlebirds (Callaeidae), an ancient family of birds which includes the North and South Island saddleback and the extinct huia. The kōkako is the only member of its family still surviving on the mainland.
A dark bluish-grey bird with a long tail and short wings, it has a pair of brightly coloured, fleshy "wattl… Continue
When St John member Sheryl Armstrong stopped for lunch at the Dinsdale shops in Hamilton, she didn’t realise that her outing would involve saving a stranger’s life.
Sheryl was sitting in her car when she heard a loud bang. She hopped out to see a car had crashed into a number of parked cars and the driver was slumped over the wheel.
Armed with th… Continue
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Teaching & Building in Peru - 14 days
Days 1: Cuzco - Discover the colonial churches and the impressive Inca ruins dotted throughout historic Cuzco, the heart and soul of Peru. Take time to acclimatise to the city's soaring 3,400 m altitude by taking a slow stroll around the many Inca-built walls that line the city's central streets. Join the group for a team meeting then head off… Continue
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Shave for a Cure has long been the signature fundraiser of the Leukaemia & Blood Foundation (LBF) and this year they are hoping the much-loved event to a whole new level. They have added a fresh look and a brand new target to create Shave 09.
Our aim is to get 10,000 people shaving - that’s one sha… Continue
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Virunga National Park is one of the most biodiverse areas on the planet, home to 211 of the worlds remaining 720 mountain gorillas and situated in the politically unstable Democratic Republic of the Congo. The great diversity of habitats with in the Park and the fact that it nurtures a third of the world’s gorilla population, has meant that the Park has become a… Continue
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