Pacific Peoples

Kia orana, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Talofa lava, Gude tru olgeta, Taloha ni, Malo e lelei, Talofa, Ni sa bula vinaka and Warm Pacific Greetings!

This page brings together the resources we have available in Pacific languages which relate to preventing injuries to children. It also includes some related resources and links. The Pdfs of these resources are available here and we have hard-copy available of some of them.

Please contact us to discuss availability. Click the links below to access child injury prevention resources and other information.

Events

Faifaimālie na‘a Tamaki ha Tu‘amelie (Pacific Safety and Unintentional Injury Prevention Forum).
Date/time: Friday 19th February 2010, 9.30am to 1pm.
Venue: Tongan Methodist Church of Mangere (Lotofale’ia), 34 Orly Avenue, AUCKLAND.
RSVP: By 16 February 2010, Email: alisi.katoanga@manukau.govt.nz or phone Phone: (09) 2628900 x8731

Who should attend: Pacific Peoples Church leaders, Pacific Peoples Community leaders and decision makers; Pacific Peoples working in injury prevention and health promotion; Pacific Peoples Educators and child care services. In fact, any Pacific Peoples with an interest in learning about how to keep our people safe. All are welcome. Click here for more information.

Factsheets

Pacific Child Unintentional Injuries (Pdf. 2010)
Ethnicity-related data is included in most of our other child injury factsheets.

Burns prevention

Faasologa o mea e ao ina fai i aiga mo le puipuiga o mu i mea vevela. (Be burn and fire wise.) Pamphlet (Samoan, Pdf, 2004)
Ko e ngaahi me'a ke fai 'e he ngaahi famili' ke faka'ehi'ehi mei' he vela. (Be burn and fire wise.) Pamphlet (Tongan, Pdf, 2004)

Driveway runover prevention

'Oku 'ikai ha to e foki ki mu'a! (There's no going back!) A3 poster (Tongan, Pdf. 2006)
'Oku 'ikai ha to e foki ki mu'a! (There's no going back!) DLE pamphlet (Tongan, Pdf. 2006)
'Oku 'ikai ha to e foki ki mu'a! (There's no going back!) small in-car sticker (Tongan, Pdf. 2006)
E le mafai ona e toe fo'i i tua! (There's no going back!) A3 poster (Samoan, Pdf. 2006)
E le mafai ona e toe fo'i i tua! (There's no going back!) DLE pamphlet (Samoan, Pdf. 2006)
E le mafai ona e toe fo'i i tua! (There's no going back!) small in-car sticker (Samoan, Pdf. 2006)

Pedestrian safety

Pedestrian safety education kit. (Aimed at Pacific Early Childhood Centres.) Flip-chart, Early Childhood Teacher's resource. (English, Pdf, 2006). For more information about this please contact us.

Position Papers, Research, Bibliography and Advocacy Information

Ethnicity-related data is also included in our publication 'New Zealand Child Injury Statistical Data: Mortality Data 2001-2005, Morbidity Data 2003-2007' (2009). For more information please email Moses 'Alatini.

Presentations

Pacific Information & Planning Day Workshop 2009. A presentation delivered at Safekids workshops introducing the 2009/2010 Campaign themes of child passenger safety and the prevention of cutting and piercing injuries. Coming soon.

Links

The 'links' at our website are organised into subject groupings. For links to New Zealand websites relating to Pacific Peoples, go to our links page and select the category 'Pacific Peoples' from the dropdown menu.

For more information on the prevention of unintentional injuries to Pacific children, contact Campaign@safekids.org.nz.

This page was last updated April 5, 2010.