by AdminNZ | Mar 23, 2023 | How We Help, News, People with juvenile idiopathic arthritis
By Joanne Taylor After two years of cancellations due to COVID-19, Families Camp went ahead at Totara Springs in the sunny and warm Matamata from all over New Zealand. Twenty-One children and their caregiver/s gathered at a camp specifically designed for children...
by AdminNZ | Oct 21, 2021 | How We Help, News, People with ankylosing spondylitis
After developing a form of autoimmune arthritis following a mountain bike race in the snow 12 years ago, Tama Easton is set to come full circle. This morning he departed Lake Tekapo on an 800 km eBike tour to show arthritis sufferers how much fun and adventure can be...
by AdminNZ | Oct 18, 2021 | How We Help, News, People with less common forms of arthritis
Lucy Haines (23) is on her way to joining New Zealand’s law profession. She’s in her fourth year at Auckland University’s notoriously ruthless honours programme. She’s doing it all in the shadow of a recent arthritis diagnosis. Lucy has lived...
by AdminNZ | Oct 15, 2021 | How We Help, News, People with psoriatic arthritis
One of the messages that every arthritis sufferer wants to get across is that the disease is so much more than inconvenient aches and pains or something you get when you’re old. Brad Boult is only 55 years old and lives with psoriatic arthritis, an inflammatory...
by AdminNZ | Oct 14, 2021 | How We Help, News, People with juvenile idiopathic arthritis
There were lots of firsts for Gabby Shepherd at this year’s Arthritis Teens Camp at El Rancho on the Kapiti Coast. It was the first time the then-14-year-old had flown on an aeroplane by herself, the first time she had been so far away from her family, the first time...
by AdminNZ | Oct 13, 2021 | How We Help, News, People with rheumatoid arthritis
As a long term donor and one of our social media followers, Cliff says he finds the comments from people living with Arthritis (on the Arthritis New Zealand Facebook page) interesting and, in some cases, troubling in that people are suffering. “It is so difficult for...
