Local Focus: Covid pushed them out of school, this programme pulls them back in
18 Apr, 2021 03:09 AM
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Helping youth who dropped out of school in lockdown. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Helping youth who dropped out of school in lockdown. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Ten young people were the first to take part in the groundbreaking Te Hiringa programme in Rotorua.
The course supports some of the regions most vulnerable 15-year-olds, whose education has been adversely affected by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Rotorua Youth Centre Manager Steve Holmes said Te Hiringa was a programme put together by two organisations: Te Waiariki Purea Trust and the Rotorua Community Youth Centre Trust.
Stylist Onika Cooper hopes to empower clients
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Press Release – Ara Taiohi
Youth Week 2021 creates intentional space for young people to lead and respond to their own wellbeing and that of their whānau and communities. This contrasts the recent negative focus on young people as ‘flouters’ of COVID guidelines during the recent Level 3 lockdown in Auckland.
Ara Taiohi (the peak body for youth development) is the kaitiaki of Youth Week, an annual festival of events where we as a nation are able to celebrate our young people, their strengths, talents and resilience.
“Traditionally Youth Week’s primary strategy is to support young people in our communities to run creative events for and with other young people”, says Shannan Wong, Director of Youth Week. “2021 provides the opportunity for young people and youth sector organisations to take the lead in planning events with pivoting abilities to align with government COVID expectations”.