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When: May 1 - 31, 2025
What: A fitness challenge that encourages you to get active and fundraise for a good cause while unlocking inspiring humanitarian stories from our disaster response volunteers, former refugees and international delegates.
Where: Anywhere! Track your steps and join from your location.
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By participating, you'll contribute to humanitarian work here in New Zealand and around the world including:
·Equipping our Disaster Welfare and Support Teams to respond swiftly to emergencies. Supporting former refugee families as they build new lives in Aotearoa New Zealand.
·Training international delegates to be ready for lifesaving missions.
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Some Choice News!
Many New Zealand gardens aren’t seeing as many monarch butterflies fluttering around their swan plants and flower beds these days — the hungry Asian paper wasp has been taking its toll.
Thanks to people like Alan Baldick, who’s made it his mission to protect the monarch, his neighbours still get to enjoy these beautiful butterflies in their own backyards.
Thinking about planting something to invite more butterflies, bees, and birds into your garden?
Thanks for your mahi, Alan! We hope this brings a smile!
Tourism manufacturer pulls plug in Oz, powers up in Hamilton
A major global tourism operator is ditching production in Australia and jumping across the Tasman to Hamilton.
Tourism Holdings Limited have announced they are closing its manufacturing factory in Brisbane effective December 19 and are transitioning all production to Action Manufacturing in Hamilton, New Zealand.
Poll: Are our Kiwi summer holidays helping us recharge, or holding the economy back? ☀️🥝
There’s growing debate about whether New Zealand’s extended Christmas break (and the slowdown that comes with it) affects productivity.
Tracy Watkins has weighed in ... now it’s your turn. What’s your take? 🤔
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71.6% We work hard, we deserve a break!
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18% Hmm, maybe?
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10.4% Yes!
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