Press Release – NZUSA The New Zealand Union of Students Associations (NZUSA) has elected its National President for 2021. The election took place last Friday at an NZUSA Special General Meeting (SGM) in Wellington. Andrew Lessells, 22, was elected to serve as the National …
The New Zealand Union of Students’ Associations (NZUSA) has elected its National President for 2021. The election took place last Friday at an NZUSA Special General Meeting (SGM) in Wellington.
Andrew Lessells, 22, was elected to serve as the National President for 2021. He was President for the Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) Students’ Association, Younited, from 2019 to 2020, and is only the second Polytechnic representative to be elected as National President in NZUSA’s almost 100-year history.
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Education is one key to break the chain of family violence, says an EIT TairÄwhiti student and mother of six who knows from experience.  Â
Pat Tamanui has had a rough ride in her adult life so far including two violent relationships. Â
Her second ended in a traumatic event witnessed by some of her children. The police were involved and a long drawn-out court process followed. Â
âIt was the same cycle as my first relationship, if not worse.â Â
She thought she was at her lowest when she enrolled at EIT. Â
âI did not know what I wanted to study, but I knew education was the key to my future.Â
Monday, 18 January 2021, 5:56 pm
The New Zealand Union of Students’ Associations (NZUSA)
has elected its National President for 2021. The election
took place last Friday at an NZUSA Special General Meeting
(SGM) in Wellington.
Andrew Lessells, 22, was elected
to serve as the National President for 2021. He was
President for the Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT)
Students’ Association, Younited, from 2019 to 2020, and is
only the second Polytechnic representative to be elected as
National President in NZUSA’s almost 100-year
history.
“It’s an immense privilege to have been
elected and to be able to represent the 400,000 students
learning across all of Aotearoa” says
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In search of a better standard of living, EIT TairÄwhiti student Jinesh Joseph moved from his home in Southern India to Gisborne three years ago.Â
He has also changed his career path. Â
After arriving with a degree in social work, he has nowt completed year one of in a Bachelor of Nursing degree.Â
âMy wife, also a nurse, came first and four months later I arrived with our daughter.âÂ
Both from very poor families, the couple dreamed of getting job in a foreign country to achieve a better standard of living and better income, not just for their own life, but also to be able to send money home.Â
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Efrain Vega de Varona and Ingrid Rivera befriended 91-year-old Nat when they volunteered to deliver groceries to her while they were stuck in Kaikōura during the national lockdown. She taught them how to make pikelets, schooled them in the local lingo – like what stubbies and spuds are – and shared a few beers. Their story inspired a local movement to connect elderly people with helpers. Rivera, an actress and model, and de Varona, an engineer, are no strangers to helping others when crisis strikes. In September 2017, when Hurricane Maria tore through their homeland of Puerto Rico, they helped raise funds and deliver supplies to those in need.