– Dorothy – 13/3/97 Diane Matsas and Parents Centre New Zealand Do you work in a Family Friendly Workplace? Is the community where you live supportive of whole families? Parents Centre New Zealand is working to make changes towards Family Friendly Communities. You may have heard of Parents Centre and think of it as a…
– Dorothy – 27/2/97 “There’s no job for me at present. I’d love to be self-employed but I don’t know enough to start a business. I haven’t enough confidence.” That has been the cry of so many people in New Zealand wanting to make a change in their lives. Some have been made redundant. Some…
– Dorothy – 20/2/97 “Giving to New Zealand – a new initiative by Taiwanese immigrants.” There has been a lot of discussion about whether or not New Zealand has benefited from inviting Asian immigrants to live among us. Like all groups of people they are a mixture, but one Asian group in particular is working…
– Dorothy – 13/2/97 “What do you do when your life falls apart – give in or find a new path?” December 1985 – a gush of water from a water slide swept Peter head first against the side of a pool. January 1997 – he is managing to walk a little and his course…
– Dorothy – 7/2/97 “From sheep and school children to a tourist lodge in one leap.” One week last July Evan Glass was sharing the management of a sheep farm with his brother and Heather Glass was principal of a local primary school. The next they were managing a Methven tourist lodge for skiers at…
– Dorothy – 30/1/97 “Creating a skills fund for a ‘rich’ retirement.” Save for your retirement! Build up your retirement funds! When you get to sixty there’ll be no pension! In this money-driven society we hear it over and over. What the ads don’t say is, “You’ll probably have to stop work early! You don’t…
– Dorothy – 16/1/97 “Ahmed Kafedzic is no stranger to dramatic change – from success and wealth to the horrors of the siege of Sarajevo and then to being a refugee in Christchurch, New Zealand.” Before the war broke out in Bosnia Ahmed Kafedzic was one of the wealthiest and most successful people in the…
– Dorothy – 10/1/97 “Changing countries has its problems – for the exchange student and the host family.” Emiko Komagata was sent by her mother to English school in Japan – rather a difficult change for her as she knew almost no English. She responded so well to this change that next she wanted to…
– Dorothy – 19/12/96 “About a woman who was a late reader. Some change is like a miracle. Lynne’s story can give others new hope.” Determination is often the catalyst for change, for getting over the obstacles. That is how it was with Lynne. I decided to write about her when I was chatting to…
– Dorothy – 12/12/96 “Who escapes change in NZ today?” I think that phrase sums up New Zealand life in the late eighties and nineties. Gone are the days when people went into one job and stayed there for all their working life. Now government policy makers have made countless changes and we have to…
