by admin | Aug 31, 2021 | Northwest, Regional News
Tena Koutou Katoa / Greetings, hello to you all, Well done everyone! We’ve been staying in our bubbles for lockdown, dealing with it all the best we can. For caregivers, it’s obviously meant big changes with tamariki (children) at home again and all that entails. As I...
by admin | Aug 31, 2021 | Lower North, Regional News
Kia ora everyone, As I write this, we are again in lockdown. I remember I had just started at Caring Families Aotearoa when we went into the last one. Lockdown is a wonderful opportunity to connect with a lot of caregivers and I am looking forward to doing it again!...
by admin | Aug 31, 2021 | Regional News, Upper South
Kia ora koutou katoa, Here we are again in an extended lockdown, this time with little notice to get too much organised. I happened to have been away from home in Blenheim when the announcement came, so had no opportunity to grab anything from the office and only have...
by admin | Aug 31, 2021 | Canterbury, Regional News
Kia ora everyone, Wow, what a month we’ve had. Moving into another Lockdown, some of us planning for vaccines, coming to grips with a new life of wearing masks and our vocabulary now includes QR codes and contact tracing, which two years ago, we wouldn’t ever have...
by admin | Aug 31, 2021 | National News, Regional News
Community help during West Coast Flooding On 17 July 2021, Westport and Marlborough suffered significant weather conditions resulting in many homes having to be evacuated due to flooding. Several caregivers’ homes, cars and possessions had been damaged, most...
