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Weaving Wellness – Whanau Ora
August 2015
Volume 1, Number 1
In This Issue
Welcome to our e-newsletter!
 Welcome to our
e-newsletter!
Welcome to our newly-established monthly electronic newsletter.
We’re excited to bring you the latest updates and news from our
various work streams, programmes and events from our agency
– an agency we are incredibly proud of. NKMP was established in
September 2000 and has grown to offer a variety of health and
social services. It is a non-profit organization with services
offered at no or low cost to the whanau/client. We believe that
people can achieve anything if they are empowered or connected
to information that helps them solve problems, motivates and
stimulates them. The first step towards positive change needs to
occur within. NKMP is an organization with energy, zest and
resources to aid a person on their journey and empower them to
succeed.
 WERO Challenge
Southland
success
 Walk-in Clinic
trial
 Te Reo Wiki
 TXT2X
Contact Us
92 Spey Street
"Arahina Ki Te Ao, Ki Te Ora" - Leading the
way towards achieving well being.
Invercargill
Ph: (03) 2145260
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WERO challenge Southland success
A
Southland
team
of
determined
participants took on the latest WERO Stop
Smoking Challenge and won the South
Island Pool, beating 11 other teams.
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The group won a total of $5750, which was
donated to the Arahi Maori Women’s
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Welfare League. We had a special
celebration, along with the league, to
celebrate and congratulate their amazing
Hours
effort! Two of the team members attribute
their success to the Challenge and the
Monday-Friday
support they received from it and are
9am-5pm
determined
to
remain
smoke-free. As a youngster Desiree Neho
Late night
thought the smell of cigarettes was “the most disgusting thing on
Thursday by
the planet.” But from the age of 16, she smoked seven to ten
appointment.
roll-your-owns a day. Looking back, she never would have had
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Te Reo Wiki
that first puff. “I could have done without
it (my whole life)”. And now she can.
Desiree has broken the 24-year habit and
been smoke free for more than a month
after quitting cold-turkey. Her sense of
smell has increased significantly, food
tastes better, breathing is easier and her children are proud of
her, she said.
Carol Ngeru, who started at the young age of 11 and smoked for
27 years, says quitting is one of the best things she’s ever done.
Carol smoked about 25 roll-your-owns a day and struggled to
break the habit but her determination and the support she
received from the group, helped her beat the habit.
The next competition starts September 1. People can register on
www.wero.me or contact Trish Fraser at [email protected] or on
0274 435 241.
We celebrated
Maori Language
Week between
July 27 and
August 02 – a
time for all New
Zealanders to
celebrate te reo
Maori. This year’s
theme was
'Whāngaihia te reo
Māori ki ngā
mātua': helping
parents to pass te
Walk-in Clinic Trial
reo on to their
children.
Our GP Service He Puna Waiora –
Wellness Centre – has been so popular
The country has
since it opened at the beginning of the
marked Maori
year and now we’ve got more than 1500
Language Week
enrolled patients! To reduce waiting times
every year since
we’re about to trial a one-day a week
1975 to celebrate
walk-in clinic. Dr Patu said the clinic will
te reo Maori and
provide affordable, accessible health care
to
the
community. “We’re
making
use more Maori
excellent health care more readily
phrases in
available for our patients.”
everyday life. This
The clinic will be open every Monday from
year’s theme is
9am to 5pm and after one month a
Dr Maira Patu
part of the
decision, based on patient satisfaction, will
underlying theme
be made as to whether it will continue.
of Maori Language
Week: Arohatia te
TXT 2 X
Reo – cherish the
Have you heard about TXT 2 X support? If your gambling is
language.
getting the better of you and you need help to get back on track
text your contact details to TXT 2 X (which means text to
exclude). The programme allows an individual to access the Multi
Venue Self Exclusion programme through a text message before
an appointment is made at NKMP to begin the application
process. MVSE allows you to exclude yourself from Invercargill
gaming venues for three months to two years.
Nau mai haere mai – Nga Kete Matauranga Pounamu