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Michel Mulipola's role helps Pasefika youth navigate the digital waters and space with greater safety and respect

Facebook partnered with the Save the Children to deliver an online safety campaign for the Pacific.

Celebrating International Women’s Day – March 8, 2021

The 2021 theme celebrates the tremendous efforts by women and girls around the world in shaping a more equal future and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fijian-Indian youth in Aotearoa forge a new sense of identity and pride

While their journeys differ in the fact that the Indian community began arriving in Fiji 140 years ago, Fijian-Indians have also adapted and assimilated to living in Fiji.

Pacific Young People’s Understanding of Family Violence

In 2019 MSD commissioned Malatest International to undertake qualitative research to canvass young Pacific people’s perspectives on family relationships and family violence.

MJ’s Best of both worlds

A strong sense of independence, resilience and faith runs through Tongan-born Mary Jane Kivalu, or MJ as she’s known.

Rising to the Challenge

Descended from a Samoan family of missionaries and church ministers who provided pastoral care across the Pacific generations ago, Delphina Soti recalls listening to stories of past sabbaticals partaken in the Pacific

Keeping Families Safe working for a peaceful and non-violent Christmas

Let’s work together to ensure our Pasefika communities enjoy a safe, peaceful and violence-free family Christmas during the festive season.

Ending Violence Against Women

Through a 10-year commitment, Pacific Women Shaping Pacific Development – Pacific Women connects more than 170 gender equality initiatives implemented across 14 Pacific Island countries.

Supporting Recent Migrant Victims

Action on family violence is a priority for the NZ Government. A number of reports from 2018 refer to the necessity to do more to increase awareness of family violence issues.

Nearly Invisible

In August 2020 The Backbone Collective released a report prepared for the Ministry of Social Development detailing what longer term support would have helped some women

Pasifika Collective Well-Being during the COVID-19 Crisis

Although based in Australia there's a link to how our Pasifika have responded to the pressures and parameters of a pandemic with innovative ways of nurturing our collective well-being

Finding Faith in Fiji

Daren Kamali’s late grandparents are among the many fond memories of his childhood upbringing in Fiji.

Gagana Tokelau youth taking to the Language

As a founding member and Minister for the Congregational Church of Tokelau in Porirua, Reverend Elder Tui Fakafotu Sopoaga received a QSM medal for services to the Tokelauan community in 2019.

Our Pacific Communities in Self-Isolation

We share some important messages from our Pasifika communities.

Service and Selflessness

One evening a week the Isaia family, Sue, Pati and their daughters Paige, 14, and Ember, 12, pack the boot of their car with pots, a shiny steel kettle and a menu sign board and head to a soup kitchen in South Auckland.

Continuing and Strengthening Pathways for Change

The Hon. Poto Williams, Associate Minister for Social Development, celebrated the launch of Pasefika Proud’s Pathways for Change 2019-2023

Connections and relationships paramount to strong Pacific families

Solutions for the issues plaguing our communities and families come from within our own communities

Enriching Aotearoa

Unitec Academic Programme Manager ‘Aulola (Lola) Fuka Lino has fond memories recalling growing up as a child in Tonga.

Koko Samoa Youth Show Team: Maintaining Healthy Family Relationships with Gagana Samoa

For Samoan Language Week, we speak to the Koko Samoa Youth Show team who grace our airwaves every Saturday night from 6pm to 10pm on Radio Samoa 1593AM (and livestreamed on Facebook).

Tuvaluans on the Rise

New Zealand's first Tuvaluan Christian congregation has opened a stunning new church in West Auckland that has been decades in the making and perfectly timed to celebrate Tuvalu Language Week 2020.

Covid-19 Help And Support

COVID-19 is causing stress and uncertainty for many, but it’s especially hard for people living with family violence and sexual violence.

Niue Beginnings

As chairperson of the Vagahau Niue Trust based at Favona School in Mangere, South Auckland, Mele Nemaia has been a leader in promoting and preserving her Niue language in New Zealand for decades.

Latu To’omaga - how violence affects a child's development

Watch the interview Latu has with It's Not Okay

Unearthing Abuse Without Care

The Royal Commission of Inquiry: Abuse in Care aims to uncover what happened to children, young people and vulnerable adults in state and faith-based care in New Zealand between the years 1950-99

Growing Support for Pacific Language Weeks

The increasing popularity among Pacific communities celebrating Pacific Language Weeks has received a further boost with funding from the Ministry of Pacific Peoples.

A boost for new social workers

Graduate social workers are getting greater support and supervision at the start of their career through an initiative created with the Public Service Association.

Michel Mulipola's role helps Pasefika youth navigate the digital waters and space with greater safety and respect.

Facebook partnered with the Save the Children to deliver an online safety campaign for the Pacific. As part of the I Am Digital campaign, it featured educational material in Pacific languages to help address issues with children concerning material online. Michel accepted a role to help provide support and educational material. Read more

Eye of the Liger

As a self-taught comic artist and die-hard wrestling fan, turned professional wrestler and successful online gamer, Michel Mulipola was never one to hide his talents. Growing up in a strong Samoan musical family tracing back to the villages of Vaimoso and Lefaga, with the Mulipola name hailing from Manono, Michel discovered many paths. Read more

Covid-19 Help Hub

Pasefika Proud want to thank community groups and providers who have helped our people tremendously during these difficult times. Read more