News

March 2022

A cultural approach to financial literacy – shifting perceptions

Wed, 2022-03-02 13:32

By Peter Jackson
After delivering mainstream financial literacy courses for the Commission for Financial Capability (CFFC) and a number of other organisations, ACE Aotearoa Board member and independent board member Peter Jackson has developed a financial literacy course that is designed specifically for Māori.

Learning essential skills at Reigning Downs

Wed, 2022-03-09 13:53

An ex-schoolteacher in a low decile school, Jade Ward (Tainui) is now running her own community education organisation – just out of Invercargill.

She set up the Reigning Downs Hauora Centre in late 2020 to help struggling school students of all ages, including NCEA students, to get the five key competencies listed in the NZ Curriculum – skills that Jade says, are essential to success.

These skills are: thinking (including problem solving), relating to others, using language, symbols and texts, managing self, and participating and contributing.

Failoa Famili – using social capital to meet the skills and information gap

Wed, 2022-03-16 14:21

Three years ago, three Pasifika mums from the same wider family, found that every time they got together their conversation turned to the same topic – how to help Pasifika parents who they could see were so often struggling to support their young people to grow into successful and resilient adulthood.

So they established an NGO. They called the community organisation Failoa Famili – Just do it Family.

SeniorNet – 25 years on

Wed, 2022-03-23 14:51

Volunteers working in SeniorNet centres have been teaching older people how to join the digital world and enjoy using technology for 25 years. There are about 54 centres, scattered throughout the country. They are membership organisations run by volunteers who are also over 50.

Today SeniorNet has several hundred volunteers helpingaround 8,000 members.

Growing Pacific Communities in Auckland

Wed, 2022-03-30 15:16

By Analiese Robertson, Director, ACE Aotearoa