The Trust Arena stadium, Auckland, where the beat of Cook Islands drums set the stage for the Tu Rangatira Awards. VIPs were greeted with a warm Turou (welcoming). It was a night dedicated to celebrating Cook Islands' accomplishments across eight exciting categories, marking the start of a thrilling two-day Te Maeva Nui festival.

The highly anticipated Te Maeva Nui festival is gearing up for another thrilling edition just a few weeks away. The event is scheduled to take place at Auckland's Waitakere District Trust Arena from September 29th to 30th.

As part of the Pasifika Futures (PFL) Whānau Ora Conference, PFL held a dinner and awards ceremony to acknowledge its partners and Whānau Ora Navigators for their work in serving Pacific families and communities. With the last conference being in 2019, the evening was an opportunity to reflect as well as celebrate as a collective.

Pasifika Futures' (PFL) CEO, Debbie Sorensen and Director of Performance and Evaluation, Seini Jensen, recently spoke at the Social Outcomes Conference hosted at Oxford University in England, which featured a globally diverse audience and representative speakers.

Pasifika Futures (PFL) partner, F’INE Pasifika Aotearoa Trust, held the opening of their annual F.I.N.E. Festival on Thursday night at the Mangere Arts Centre; the event is a Pasifika Rainbow Festival, celebrating Pasifika LGBTQI+, MVPFAFF+, Rainbow and Queer communities.

The Pasifika Super Saturday Community Vaccination Event is only two days away and anticipation is building in the Christchurch location as they prepare to host Pacific families at Te Aratai College (formerly known as Linwood College) located on the east side of the city....

Pasifika Futures (PFL) – The Whānau Ora Commissioning agency for Pacific families – recently held their inaugural Ngalu Fānifo Mental Health Whānau Ora Graduation at the Cordis Hotel in Auckland.

The Pasifika Medical Association (PMA) will be starting their series of webinars tomorrow evening with the first one themed - ‘Shining the light on Public Health’. The webinars are designed to facilitate engaging talanoa, where experienced medical professionals who are experts in their fields share with colleagues and students about their journeys in their profession to date.

In response to concerns around the Covid-19 vaccination uptake amongst Pasifika, the Pacific community are using different approaches to engage with families and this includes ethnic specific vaccination drives.

More than 1000 Cook Islands performers represented their vaka, enua, and village to celebrate their language and culture at the Te Maeva Nui Festival in Auckland over the weekend.