This week is Coeliac Awareness Week. It might be hard to spell but it is a good thing to know about. Coeliac disease is an autoimmune disease that causes the immune system to misfire and attack the digestive tract whenever it detects gluten in the system. Gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley, oats [...]

The Mental Health Foundation’s updated language guidelines aim to reduce the stigma of mental illness by removing some of the less helpful terms used to describe it. The guidelines have evolved over a number of years and are intended as a resource for journalists. According to the guidelines, people should be described as “experiencing” depression [...]

The digital switchover was never going to be cheap but when you’re a 100-year-old cinema with a bill for $90,000, you’re going to need to do more than a sausage sizzle. That’s how much the Victoria Cinema in Devonport needs to upgrade to new DCP (digital cinema package) technology by the end of this year. [...]

They’re on the city’s street corners every day and they’re quite likely to stop you and ask you for money. The approach is used increasingly in New Zealand, raising millions of dollars for charities each year and reaching hundreds of individuals every day. However, face-to-face fundraising has earned a negative reputation, with the media commonly [...]

On Saturday March 30, Annisa Korengkeng, 18, will be bald, brave and beautiful. Annisa is of Indonesian descent and has beautiful wavy hair which she has kept long her entire life. While many girls her age are spending hundreds of dollars to have hair like hers, Annisa is shaving hers off for a good cause. Annisa is [...]

AUT University students may have already begun Christmas shopping for disadvantaged children in Fiji, Samoa and Vanuatu.  These Christmas gifts for disadvantaged children are organised by Operation Christmas Child.  AUT University’s students’ association, AuSM, is partnering with the charity for the first time. AuSM staff member Deanna Berry says, “AuSM likes to be involved in [...]

More than 300 women participated in a 5km and10km run through Mt Eden last weekend (September 22) to raise money for women struggling with various life controlling issues. All proceedings from the event went to A Girl Called Hope, a not-for-profit organization providing support for young New Zealand women struggling with eating disorders, depression, abuse, [...]

Just five months after its debut, Parnell-based start-up Donate Your Desktop is a finalist in two Web Awards categories. TechDay’s annual NetGuide Web Awards allow internet users to vote for their favourite websites in a range of categories. The site with the largest number of votes in each category wins. Donate Your Desktop is a [...]

A young East Auckland resident has become an inspiration to dozens of depression sufferers, after a charity run for the Neurological Foundation of New Zealand. Recent AUT graduate Natalie Williams was compelled to support the organisation, after suffering from both depression and migraines.  “I was diagnosed with depression in 2010 and found the social stigma [...]