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Nesian Village is a general news and events page for the Nesian diaspora from local to global! Polynesian, Melanesian, Micronesian, Pasifika!

Polynesian, Melanesian, Micronesian, Pasifika!! General news on Education, Health, Community, Business, Politics, Religion, Cultural & Social issues. For more info feel free to email [email protected].

05/06/2022

Public health champion Dr Collin Fonotau Tukuitonga, Cricket legend Ross Taylor, Pacific language advocate Mele Ah Sam, rap musician Bill Urale and opera singer Jonathan Lemalu are among the Pacific peoples honoured in today's Queen's Birthday Honours. Nesian Village salutes them!

Dr Collin Fonotau Tukuitonga a Pacific champion during the COVID 19 pandemic has been made a Knight in the Queen’s Birthday and Platinum Jubilee Honours List 2022. “Dr Tukuitonga , a Niuean, has been a champion of many health initiatives from ...

14/05/2022

A walking group called Brotherz Keepers is spreading awareness of healthy living and positive mental health among Pasifika men. The group recently completed a 45km walk around Auckland to mark the end of a five-week walking challenge. The challenge saw around 60 participants from across the country and the Pacific taking part.

A walking group called Brotherz Keepers is spreading awareness of healthy living and positive mental health among Pasifika men.

02/05/2022

An idea birthed at the beginning of the pandemic is breaking down the stigma of su***de and raising awareness in a community that has often treated it as taboo. The 21-Day Life Journal by the Failoa Famili Charitable Trust is among the first intervention tools in New Zealand for Pacific youth, written by Pacific people. ***de

The 21-Day Life Journal is one of the first su***de intervention tools developed in New Zealand for young Pasifika.

18/04/2022

Samoa-born chef Monica Galetti, 46, is undoubtedly one of New Zealand’s most successful chefs. She’s worked in one of the finest restaurants in the world and risen through the ranks to hold positions most will only ever dream of - a feat made even more astonishing by the fact that she is one of a small handful of female chefs running kitchens in haute cuisine restaurants.

Samoa-born, New Zealand-raised, with a hugely successful career built in the United Kingdom, chef Monica Galetti is at the top of her game - and she’s not here to pull punches.

13/04/2022

From choir singing as a teenager in Samoa, to training to be an early childhood teacher in New Zealand in his 40s, Salamo Sooalo's life has by no means followed a traditional path. Salamo began singing in his local church's choir in the late 1980s, and eventually began helping to coordinate church choirs around Samoa in the early 1990s.

Salamo wants an ECE that combines Faʻa Sāmoa with the values of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

10/04/2022

Samoan kept asking slave in New Zealand by Samoan matai 🇼🇸 speaks out.

He was lured to New Zealand with promises of money and a better life, but instead he was kept as a slave, repeatedly assaulted and cut off from his family.

02/04/2022

A US court has heard how a terrified New Zealand-Cook Islander nurse, Isis hostage Louisa Akavi, was comforted by a young US aid worker, Kayla Mueller, as she struggled with her captivity. It's reported that Mueller was taken to a room by her captors, the so-called ‘Beatles’, to comfort a “really scared” Akavi.

New Zealand nurse Louisa Akavi was scared, and struggling to cope with her captivity, a US court hears.

01/04/2022

The Shepparton Culture Kitchen project is bringing a piece of traditional Samoan cuisine to the Goulburn Valley this weekend with A Taste of Umu. Developed by local Samoan woman Leaisa Pele in collaboration with artist Jamie Lewis, attendees will be able to immerse themselves in Samoan culture, plus enjoy some culinary delights.

The Shepparton Culture Kitchen project is bringing a piece of traditional Samoan cuisine to the Goulburn Valley this weekend with A Taste of Umu.

28/03/2022

As NewZealand's Covid-19 death toll rises, Māori and Pasifika are dying at an alarmingly disproportionate rate. Collectively they make up 37% of all deaths across the pandemic, and Pasifika have the highest death rate per 100,000 cases than any other ethnic group in the Omicron outbreak.

Collectively they make up 40% of all deaths across the pandemic.

16/03/2022

Former Samoan NFL star gets top state official appointment in the US.

In November, the Anchorage Assembly passed an ordinance to prevent Mayor Dave Bronson’s appointees from serving for long periods of time without being confirmed by the Assembly. That was then — when the Assembly didn’t like the mayor’s choice for the Anchorage Library directorship and wanted...

15/03/2022

Efeso Collins says Auckland needs to be a unified city where people understand each other. This desire helped shape his decision to run for mayor of the largest city in the country.

Fa'anana Efeso Collins is hoping to become Auckland City's next mayor.

12/03/2022

Seasonal workers being paid as little as $3.20 per hour have faced a Senate inquiry after allegations they were threatened for previously giving evidence. Two Samoan fruit pickers were to have their employment terminated after they gave evidence to the Australian Senate last month, if not for their government's intervention, according to the Samoan high commissioner.

Two Samoan fruit pickers were to have their employment terminated after they gave evidence to the Senate last month that they were paid as little as $3.20 an hour.

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