Articles tagged with: Children
Buddy Day used as tool to inspire more kindness and respect for children
Buddy Day – the day where the well being of children becomes a key focus – is coming up this November 13th, with five North Island communities getting involved.
Buddy Day involves 1800 adults in the …
New Australian Children’s Commissioner highlights importance of listening to children
Children’s Commissioner outlines key priorities as she begins her new role.
On her first day at the Australian Human Rights Commission, the incoming National Children’s Commissioner, Ms Megan Mitchell, has stated her desire to ensure children’s …
UNICEF NZ Launches New Book to Champion Kiwi Kids’ Rights
UNICEF NZ (UN Children’s Fund)
Media Release
9 November 2011
UNICEF NZ Launches New Book to Champion Kiwi Kids’ Rights
UNICEF NZ is launching a new children’s picture book ‘For Each and Every Child’/ He Taonga Tonu te Tamariki’, …
Building Community, Helping the Honey Bees With ‘Project Sunshine’
Taita, New Zealand
Theme: Building Community
The Story: Having fun can be a great way of learning. Not only that but it can also be a really effective way to build connections to the environment and people …
1000 Days to Get It Right: Every Child Counts
Every Child Counts is launching a new campaign to highlight the importance of adequate public and community investment in a child’s early years – the first 1000 days of life – by releasing …
Course – Raising & Educating Our Children Without Punishment or Rewards
GROWING UP IN TRUST
Raising & Educating Our Children Without Punishment or Rewards
A Workshop presented by JUSTINE MOL from THE NETHERLANDS
for parents, grandparents, teachers & anyone working with children
Sunday, 8 May 2011, 9 am – 5 …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 338 – An Ode to the Onekaka Hall
The old Onekaka Hall was built 100 years ago for the New Zealand Education Board. Today it stands, small, cosy and lovingly maintained. Also, though I write this with mild levels of disbelief, it can …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#191 – Fund Raising at the Children’s A & P Show – Beaut
I’m sitting beside Anna the (viking-like mother of four) chopping carrots and apples as fast as I can. There’s a flurry of young children and hopeful looking parents in a cluster before me. Anna’s juicing …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#169 – HANDy Relations
Have you got a complementary currency in your community? Honestly, they can be so useful. Here in Golden Bay I’ve been making the most of ours, which is called HANDS (just in case you’re …
Great Fathers – A Free, Special DVD Just for New Dads
How about this story. A guy – lets call him Dave – is reading some material by a NZ pediatrician and a US economist, and is so stunned by the material he resolved to tell …
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#70 – Introducing the Green Urban Living kiwi website
Don’t you love finding people who dream exciting green dreams and make them happen? Today I ‘met’ Janet Luke. This is how she introduced herself to me via email:
“I am a Landscape Architect, Environmental Planner, Permaculturalist and …
From Britain to New Zealand and Back Again
Life has come full circle for British-born, Kiwi-raised child migrant Tony Chambers with his return to his hometown of Hemel Hempstead in England. Tony was one of approximately 150,000 British children sent to various parts …
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