Etu Pasifika is the largest Pacific health provider in Canterbury and provides a range of culturally responsive services for the whole family in the centre of Christchurch.  

Amanaki Misa is the General Manager for Etu Pasifika and joins us this morning to talk about the work they do and the upcoming community discussions on how Government funding for Pasifika aspirations should be invested.

This morning we’re joined by Pesetã Fa'amatuãinu Lama Tone. Peseta is the founder & director of New Pacific Architecture Ltd & is based in Auckland. Peseta represented Samoa in basketball 1992 - 1995 & played for Manu Samoa between 1996-2001.

Peseta pursued architecture studies at the University of Auckland from 2002 to 2008, and graduated with a Bachelor of Architectural Studies (BAS) as well as a Bachelor of Architecture (B’Arch – Hons) & a Master of Architecture (M’Arch – Hons).  

Peseta is currently a professional teaching fellow at UoA, School of Architecture (part-time). He teaches contemporary Pacific architecture to third and fourth year students and for the most part, takes students to various Pacific islands and forms design briefs and returns to Aotearoa to design their projects. Advocating for Pacific and Maori students to pursue a career in architecture as there are not many.

The High Court in Wellington is hearing a case on whether the level 4 lockdown and closing all but essential businesses was lawful.

The judicial review is being brought by lawyer Andrew Borrowdale against Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield challenging the legality of the Covid-19 lockdown rules imposed by the government.

Here to help the Pacific Breakfast show, and those listening in with similar curiosity, get an a lay understanding of it all is barrister & President of the Pacific Lawyers Association, Ms. Tania Sharkey. Kia ora, ata marie & mōrena kia koe Tania.

Sully Paea is known for youth development work in NZ as someone whose ideas and actions, through the work of Crosspower NZ and Street Dance NZ to name only a few, have helped transform the lives of many in his beloved Otara in South Auckland.  

He grew up in Niue and immigrated to Auckland, in the 1960s. His grandfather encouraged the family to visit New Zealand, describing it as the land of opportunity and flowing with “milk & honey”. 

Sully established  ‘Crosspower NZ’ in 1994, a social & youth work organisation and he has invested much of his time and energy into improving the lives of youth in Otara.

Pacific Islanders living in the United States are being diagnosed and hospitalised with COVID-19 at significantly higher rates than people from other ethnic groups.

The US has been significantly impacted by the coronavirus pandemic with over 4.2 million cases and 146,000 deaths so far with thousands of new cases reported every day.

Dr Raynald Samoa is the Clinical Lead for the National Pacific Islander Covid-19 Response Team which comprises task forces from around the United States.  Dr Samoa is a clinical research endocrinologist who received his medical degree from the University of Washington.  He is currently the Assistant Clinical Professor at the City Hope Medical Centre in Duarte, California and is on the line with us now Talofa lava Dr Samoa and thank you very much for taking time out to chat with us.

A Samoan man convicted of human trafficking and slavery has been sentenced to 11 years in prison.  

Joseph Auga Matamata, the first person to be convicted of human trafficking and slavery in New Zealand was sentenced in the Napier High Court yesterday.

He had brought 13 Samoan workers to Hastings between 1994 and April 2019 for horticultural work. They sometimes worked 14-hour days, seven days a week, without pay, the court was told during the trial earlier this year.

After work they were forced to complete chores at Matamata's home late into the night and would get beaten if his rules were disobeyed.

The oldest victim was in his 50s and the youngest was just 12.

To talk to us about this case is Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner, Saunoamaali’i Dr Karanina Sumeo who is on the line, talofa lava lau afioga Saunoamaali’i and thank you for taking time to talk with us.

Fetu Elisara, who has lived in Hong Kong for over 10 years has just finished her quarantine period at the Novotel Hotel in Auckland over the weekend. Fetu is visiting her elderly mother in Wellington. She joins us on Pacific Breakfast to talk about her experience.

Finau Taungapeau has lived in Dunedin for thirty years and has been working in health promotion for the Pacific Trust Otago for twelve years.  She is Tongan and is passionate to support, encourage and lead the way for our Pasifika people to improve their overall wellbeing. 

Finau is currently completing a Masters in dietetics.  She has returned to work for Pacific Trust Otago as a researcher and in community development and was recently made manager of the trust. 

This week Pasifika Futures are holding community consultations starting in the South Island to discuss how $151 million dollars of Government funding should be invested for Pasifika aspirations in Aotearoa.

To talk to us about Super Rugby Aotearoa over the week is Stephen Bachop former Highlanders, Hurricanes, Manu Samoa and All Blacks player.  Bash is of Samoan, Cook Islands and Tahitian descent and is on the line with us now.

Esmeralda Lo Tam is founder of EI8HT SPORTS with a Bachelor's degree in Health Sciences, Post-graduate diploma and Masters in Public Health (Hons.) and majored in Pacific Health.  In 2016 she moved to Samoa where she started her own social enterprise in 2018. 

Pitching her start-up business idea at the inaugural Youth Co:Lab Apia and placed in the top 5 candidates which enabled her to represent Samoa and the Pacific in Beijing China at the UNDP Youth Co:Lab in 2018.  She was the only Pacific winner through to the finals and was awarded the 2018 Asia Pacific Youth SDG Innovative Award. 

EI8HT SPORTS teamed up with Inspiring Stories to promote online scholarships to Pacific participants for the Festival for the Future Summit.  Esmeralda joins us live from Australia,

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