Kia Orana tātou kātoatoa, It has been quite the year for CIDANZ, and as 2024 draws to a close, we take this opportunity to reflect on a year filled with milestones, challenges, and opportunities to serve our Cook Islands communities in Aotearoa and beyond. Despite the challenges, your unwavering support, patience and understanding has been […]
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We’re almost done with October, but our team has still been hard at work! Here is our South Island Wellbeing Navigator, owner of Kuki Learning, and community leader Charlie delivering Culture and Language Classes last week. 3 sessions in one evening to Under 14s Girls and Under 16s Girls at Burnside Park, and Under 18
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Kia mataora tatou i teia ‘Epetoma o te reo Māori Kūki ‘Airani. Meitaki Ma’ata to all those who were able to join us for the Official Opening of Cook Islands Language Week 2024. A special mention to Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board, Mangere-Otahuhu Local Board, the Ministry for Pacific Peoples, Centre for Pacific Languages, MP Jenny Salesa,
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Kia Orana,Thank you to those who were able to join our Board and staff as we farewelled our outgoing CEO Rouruina Emil’e-Brown last Friday. It was a wonderful celebration of her dedication and service to the organisation and our Cook Islands communities and while we will miss her at the office, we know we will
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Kia Orāna Tātou kātoatoa i te aro’a ma’ata o tō tātou Atu ko Iesu Mesia ‘i teia tuātau ‘akama’ara’anga i tōna ‘ānau’anga mai ki rotopū ‘ia tātou. Kua ‘ānau’ia mai ‘oki ‘aia kia rauka ‘ia tātou te tika’anga ki te ora motukore. ‘Okota’i ana ‘akaue’anga kia tātou koia, kia aro’a tātou ‘ia tātou ‘uāo rāi.
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Written by Tauraki Rongo This year’s Cook Islands Language week theme will continue to explore into the 2021 theme. Atutui’ia au ki te oneone o toku Ui Tupuna – Connect me to the soils of my ancestors. Over the years our theme has changed continuously, and while it was good for exploring words or phrases
Written by Tauraki Rongo Today, there’s so much talk about Climate change and greenhouse gas emission, and how it’s going to affect low lying Islands and areas. It’s been talked about for years, so a lot of people have heard about it, but do they really know what it is? Do we really know how
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Photos and Story provided by Taputukura Raea Last week was the launch of the Virtual Pacific Museum – Digital Pasifik with a celebration event at the National Library Te Puna Matāuranga o Aotearoa, hosted by the Australian High Commission. The launch had a fitting pacific-style celebration with talanoa, food and dance. Hon Jan Tinetti and
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Written by Tauraki Rongo This week we celebrate the life of one of our greatest leaders, Dr Joseph Williams. As the event began to shape up through the last two to three weeks planning, I suddenly realised that two great leaders that the Cook Islands have ever had passed at the same time. I believe
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If you’ve been following the Pink Shirt Day Campaign, you would have seen five videos, each with their own message of encouragement, hope, understanding, and support to stand up against bullying. Capturing those stories would not have been possible without Lasskohl Visuals, owned and operated by Luke Siaki. Here is their story. “Lasskohl Visuals was
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