Strong Voices

Empowered lives

Pop-up park for Tauranga an asset for tenants

August 5, 2022

A cool morning didn’t spoil the warmth of the welcome for Accessible Properties’ tenants to a new pop-up park in Tauranga.

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Whitney tracks the missing pieces

August 5, 2022

Scientist Dr Whitney Whitford is skilled at finding missing pieces of DNA.

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Pen pals kept family’s hopes alive

August 5, 2022

Alannah was being home-schooled in Hanmer Springs during the lockdown. Diksha was in India wondering when she would be able to see her mother in New Zealand.

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New disability housing and health research is grim reading

August 5, 2022

Three new research reports on housing and health affecting disabled people have been released without any public launch, despite the wishes of the disabled people’s organisations involved.

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New Advocacy Director impatient to see sector changes

August 5, 2022

New IHC Director of Advocacy Tania Thomas has waited too long to see positive changes happening for people with intellectual disabilities.

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Shelby’s magic moment

August 5, 2022

This was his magic moment. The korowai came down off the wall and was draped around Shelby Porowini’s shoulders. It meant he was now one of the big kids and was going to school.

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New technology gets closer to the causes of genetic disorders

August 5, 2022

Eight families have diagnoses for rare genetic disorders thanks to the latest work by a team of researchers at the University of Auckland.

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Parenting at 3am - you're not alone

August 5, 2022

Awhi Ngā Mātua is a community of parents who Emily Writes wishes she had known in those long nights when she felt alone and overwhelmed with the responsibility of caring for a sick child.

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Pictures worth a thousand words

August 5, 2022

Every person portrayed in this multimedia exhibition has a story to tell, but their pictures alone are worth a thousand words. More than a thousand.

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Tom puts out the call for a café stop

August 5, 2022

Tom Russell has just finished a day’s work at the Te Tuhi Training Café in Pakuranga working at the till, taking orders and baking a batch of almond friands.

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