Prisoners With Family Perished or Missing in Samoa Tsunami Asking For Prayers
Posted: October 2, 2009 Filed under: Analysis, Breaking News, Community, Current, Earthquake Tsunami Samoa/AmSampa 09, education, Environment, Noticeboard Tsunami, NZPacific, South Pacific Region | Tags: aleipata., breaking news samoa tsunami, Breaking news tsunami, lalomanu, Le'au, LOLE-TAYLOR, Lotofaga, Michael Jones, prisoners affected by tsunami samoa, prisoners call on prayer to get them through tsunami tragedy, radio 531pi, samoa, samoan prisoners affected by tsunami tragedy, Samoan Prisoners in NZ Affected by Tsunami Tragedy Asking For Prayers, south coast samoa, Upolu, yolande ah chong 1 CommentYolande Ah Chong from Radio 531pi read out an email from those working within the prison system with Samoan prisoners. They have also lost loved ones in the tsunami and are in need of our prayers and spiritual sustenance.
The emailer is asking for people and church ministers to overlook that these men, and woman, are prisoners and to extend a hand of prayer and fellowship to them at this time.
Like Michael Jones, the former All Black, is saying on 531pi radio right now, we forget about our prisoners and it’s good to be reminded that they have also lost loved ones as well.
Email request below
From: LOLE-TAYLOR, Le’au (NRCFPP) [mailto:Le’au.Lole-Taylor@corrections.govt.nz]
Sent: Friday, 2 October 2009 11:39 a.m.
To: L.A. Lole-Taylor
Subject: Need your help for Spiritual comfort to our Samoan prisonersTalofa and Greetings to all our community.
It is time like this when nature strikes, that some of our men turn to their faith for support.
While they may have done wrong which landed them in prisons, they are still tama-fanau of our ancestors.
We are in need of some Samoan ministers who could provide prayer sessions for an hour or so at some of our prison sites this Sundays 3rd October.Some of our Samoan prisoners have lost their families in the villages affected by the Tsunami. I ask that you look beyond their offending, and help provide them with some spiritual support.
With the majority of us having our services in the morning from 10.00am onwards, we are happy to facilitate earlier services e.g. 8.00am – 9.00am or afternoon from 1.00pm onwards.
If you could help out in any way, we would really appreciate this.
Le’au
Le’aufa’amulia Asenati LOLE-TAYLOR
Regional Advisor-Pacific, Northern Region
Dept. of Corrections Prison Service
Level 4, 195 Khyber Pass, Grafton.
Private Bag 92625, Symonds Street, AucklandTel: +64-9-638 5726 (DD) or Internal Ext: 99926
or Mob: 021 764 306Spring Hill on 07-826 0496 or Ext: 97496
Email: Le’au.Lole-Taylor@corrections.govt.nz
Pacific Strategy:
My strength does not come from me alone but from many
O le tele o sulu e maua ai ni figota, e mama se avega, pe a tatou amo fa’atasi
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Media Release: Pacific Fono A Big Help At Job Summit – Michael Jones
Posted: February 27, 2009 Filed under: Analysis, Breaking News, Business, Community, Current, education, Fono Notices, health, NZPacific, Politics, South Pacific Region | Tags: government job summit, Michael Jones, Pacific fono, Pacific people Leave a commentMEDIA RELEASE Ministry of Pacific Islands Affairs
Pacific Fono a big help at job summit – Michael Jones
Former All Black and Samoan community leader Michael Jones says last week’s Pacific Jobs Fono proved a big help to him and other Pacific delegates at today’s government job summit in Manukau.
“We came here to report on the ideas which came out of last week’s Pacific Fono,” Mr Jones said.
“As it turned out it was very relevant in terms of the contribution we made. If anything, the ideas we took into the skills and transition session showed we were well advanced in our thinking above many of the others here.”
He said he was pleased to be among nearly a dozen Pacific delegates who attended the summit at the Telstra Pacific Events Centre.
“It was very important to be here given that Pacific people are potentially among the more vulnerable groups, and given that many of our people are in the low or semi-skilled labour force,” Mr Jones said.
“I am passionate for Pacific people and we know we have what we call a long brown tail that lags behind the rest of the country in terms of education, skills and training.
“Maybe there is an opportunity here to fast-track appropriate targeted skills-training for our people so that we can hit the mark. There is no use in up skilling and missing out, but in saying that, it is also about keeping an eye on the horizon.”
Caren Rangi of Pacific Women’s Economic Development Advisory Board and Cooks Islands community member said she was pleased a number of ideas from the Fono were put forward and accepted for further consideration.
“We are quite pleased with the ideas that were accepted but the one that stood out was the proposals around supporting employers who mainly employed Pacific people,” she said.
“It came out session which looked at how to protect our most vulnerable communities and certainly the most pleasing aspect is that it is the one idea which gained a lot of traction with a lot of people.
“It fits in well with the general proposal for a nine-day working fortnight with a government supported day for up skilling. It will be a boost for our Pacific peoples apprenticeship scheme.”
She said some of the ideas will require greater discussion and work before they can be implemented.
“There was a lot of support for what we took to the summit and certainly there seemed to be other groups thinking along the same lines as us which was very pleasing for us,” Ms Rangi said.
She described the day-long event as an intensive exercise, but “well worth it”.
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