The Pyjama Foundation
“Provides modern-day angels for Australia’s families supporting its most vulnerable children. The Pyjama Foundation is the quintessential Australian children’s charity. It recruits, screens, trains and supports Pyjama Angels or volunteer members of the community who work with the children and support true heroes, Australia’s foster families. Pyjama Angels deliver a literacy-based mentoring programme that addresses […]
HSA Opus 118
Learning a musical instrument is a unique way of exposing children to beauty. Music education is a prime tool to awaken creativity and to teach concentration and focus. Opus 118 transforms the lives of thousands of Harlem youngsters through music. Focused study of a musical instrument affects a student’s academic performance in other subject areas […]
Cowpots
Cowpots are created from completely composted dry manure, mixed with natural fibres. Cowpots are 100% biodegradable. The pots will last for months in the greenhouse, or on your windowsill. Once the pots are buried in the ground they dissolve away within a couple weeks. While they’re dissolving they’re providing essential nutrients to the plants. It […]
Ashcott toward Ruahines, Central Hawkes Bay
June 2, 2010 by Gail
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“The Ruahine Ranges are one of several mountain ranges in the North Island of New Zealand that form a ridge running parallel with the east coast of the island between East Cape and Wellington. The ridge is at its most pronounced in the southern part of the island, where it comprises the Rimutaka, Tararua, and […]
Old Car Tapairu, Waipawa
June 1, 2010 by Gail
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Rangitukia woman Kura Wahirangi Kaa has been acknowledged in the 2010 Queen’s Birthday Honours List with a Queen’s Service Order for services to the restoration of historic places. Mrs Kaa (nee Walker) was born and raised at Tutumatai, Mangaoporo Valley in her early years until the family moved to Rangitukia in 1948. Mrs Kaa, 70, […]
