4th Maraenui Whanau Ora Festival bigger and better

Press release 14th April

4th Maraenui Whanau Ora Festival bigger and better

The 4th Annual Whanau Ora Festival will be held this Saturday at the Maraenui Shopping Centre will have over 22 stalls from a wide range of health and healthy wellbeing providers such as; from Hawkes Bay District Health Board providing free Flu shots, safe drinking advice and oral health messages from their stalls, free health assessment checks from Health Hawkes Bay, Asthma HB and Diabetes HB raising awareness and support, IRD providing advice on their Social policy products, Napier Family Centre focusing on family wellbeing, City Rock promoting youth programmes, Dove HB proving family violence support and resources, Te Kupenga Hauora promoting healthy lifestyle, breast & cervical screening. Other stall holders are Youth Transitions, Te Rangihaeata Oranga, Roopu A Iwi, EIT, Environment Centre and Maori Women’s Welfare League all promoting services. The Nui Trust will promote affordable healthy food options with a Silva Gee cooking demonstration at 10.30am.

“We are fortunate to have Hon Tariana Turia opening the Festival at 10am and there will be live music from then onto 1pm, there will be free sausage sizzle by the NZ Police, a bouncy castle and face painting for the kids. We are hoping for a rain free morning, but if really wet will move the festival to Pukemokimoki Marae on Riverbend Rd. The Trust is really pleased with the amount and quality of stall holders this year and our community will truly benefit from what they are offering on Saturday, we would also like to thank Napier City Council for assisting in the event to make it happen this year” said Liz Ratima from the Nui Trust.

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