It’s Saturday afternoon and the kids are all connected to separate devices. So are the parents. Sounds familiar? Many families want to set ground rules to help them reduce their screen time – and have time to connect with each other, without devices. But it can be difficult to know where to start and how Read more
New Zealand is one of the world’s worst places to bring up a child, a Guardian newspaper report says. Poverty and overcrowding are leading to life-changing health outcomes. Diseases like rheumatic fever are rife in some communities. Yet – the annual Ministry of Social Development Child Poverty Report found child poverty in New Zealand is Read more
The John Templeton Foundation has recently allocated almost $4 million to conduct an Otago University-led study – The Evolutionary Dynamics of Religion, Family Size, and Child Success. The research will be led by Dr John Shaver, University of Otago’s Religion programme head, with Otago Research Fellow Dr Joseph Watts, who will conduct fieldwork in The Read more
A former New Zealand High Commissioner to the Cook Islands says a new mobile health clinic for Rarotonga has been designed for use in disasters. Kaveinga Ora will begin replacing the island’s 27 medical centres this week as it starts service for the island’s 13,000 people. The project is the result of two years’ work Read more
A Catholic priest in Papua New Guinea has condemned the nation’s shocking child health statistics. Writing in PNG’s Catholic Reporter, Fr John Glynn of the We Care Foundation in Port Moresby pointed to United Nation’s statistics that he called “terrifying in their implications”. Fr Glynn wrote that 45 per cent of PNG children have stunted Read more
The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints (LDS) has donated a NZ$123,000 Neonatal Machine to the Faleolo Medical Centre in Samoa. Mulipola Oliva Mulipola, presented the machine to the Minister of Health, Tuitama Dr. Leao Tuitama last Tuesday. Mulipola is Upolu Samoa West Stake President of the LDS Church. He said that while Read more
An outbreak of pink eye has closed all the Catholic schools in American Samoa. The Office of Catholic Education Service, closed the schools last Friday and it was expected that they would remain closed on Monday. The closure encompasses a high school, three elementary schools and two kindergartens, with more than 700 total students enrolled. Read more