Kōrero: Health advocacy and self-help

Ki mua

Beads of courage

Whai muri

In the early 2000s the Child Cancer Foundation of New Zealand ran a programme called Beads of Courage. Young cancer sufferers got a necklace with their name spelt out in beads. Every time they had a treatment or met another challenge a bead was added. Kavahn Taumatauka (6) and Claudia Little (5) are wearing their beads at a colouring-in competition in Auckland in 2010.

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New Zealand Herald

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by Sarah Ivey

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Rosemary Du Plessis rāua ko Anne Scott, Health advocacy and self-help – Child health organisations, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/28073/beads-of-courage (accessed 5 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Rosemary Du Plessis rāua ko Anne Scott, i tāngia i te 5 April 2011.

Comments

Joseph Vakapuna
22 July 2012

My nephew Rico Vakapuna is suffering and fighting cancer at the age of two. On the 18th of July Rico was diagnosed with leukaemia and is in Auckland Starship hospital. Rico is a Tongan Pakeha and is only 2 years of age. He can speak and understand language and communicate back when answered, he is a lovely boy and I don't want to see him going away and suffering from these internal viruses inside him!! He is urgent and I love my nephew with all my heart, it feels good to tell somebody besides my family and i wish him the best of all care he can possibly get!!!!