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Student Volunteer Week: Maria Kerstens
For Student Volunteer Week, we chose to highlight the work of Maria Kerstens who has been volunteering in our Wellington office since December 2018. Maria is a student at Victoria University and wanted to use her summer break productively. She contacted us in November...
World awareness day for young people with arthritis – No New Zealand figures available
Monday, 18 March 2019 is world awareness day for young people with arthritis. To do that, we introduce you to Tasmyn, a 14-year-old girl who loves sport and is an achiever. She was selected for the Mainland U/15s basketball team, the Nelson U/15 softball team and...
Volunteer update – February 2019
We waved goodbye to summer last week and were greeted instead by some fairly ominous clouds on our way to Whanganui. Thankfully David, Liz, and a handful of others from the Whanganui Support Group were there to shelter alongside us in the Mitre 10 café. We heard their...
Children with arthritis come together at camp
The 2019 Arthritis New Zealand Children’s Camp was a roaring success. Nearly 100 people attended the weekend-long event that took place from Friday 1 March to Sunday 3 March in Matamata.
Accessible packaging – some good news
Arthritis New Zealand and Packaging New Zealand have joined forces to establish guidelines for accessible packaging in New Zealand.
Children’s Camp to have record number of people
Seventeen-year-old Tristan-Perry (TP) Moananu of Miramar, Wellington is one of the camp youth leaders this year. TP first came to camp in 2017 and returned as a youth leader last year and again this year.
Shortage of rheumatologists hurts people with chronic conditions – Stuff.co.nz
Relief is on the way for hundreds of MidCentral Health patients suffering chronic auto-immune conditions with the anticipated arrival of the district's new rheumatologist. Palmerston North Hospital is without its own specialist until the new doctor's arrival, with...
Emma’s journey with arthritis
Emma is one of over 100,000 New Zealanders with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a diagnosis she received at age 21.
Cycle Forward launches cycling programme in Whanganui
On Wednesday, 20 February 2019, Whanganui District Council and Arthritis New Zealand launched the national pilot of the Cycle Forward programme, which aims to get people with arthritis into cycling. Philip Kearney, Arthritis New Zealand Chief Executive, says, “We were...