Le Va digital resource for Pasifika families, youth etc...

 

I came across this post on Facebook and thought to share it with the Pasifika community out there who may not have had the opportunity to avail themselves of this neat resource created by 'Le Va' on their social media platform.

If you register on their website, you'll have access to a number of programmes as a young person or as a parent, educator etc.

The neat thing about it is that it's resources that positively reflect on Pasifika values, principles and culture and discusses ideas that a lot of our youth need to understand about cultural identity as a Pacific person.

It's also good for parents and educators to reflect on as there is some interesting information that are good topics to talk with our youth about especially in terms of cultural identity.

One of the interesting points that the resource brought up for me was the idea of cultural intelligence or being able to understand our cultural identity is a strength and is important for our youth to see. Often in mainstream education we are covertly seen as being different and are in a sense judged for being different.

This resource helps our youth to see that our diversity or being different and speaking more than one language (or even understanding it and being exposed to it) is a plus and not to be seen as a negative. We don't have to compare ourselves to mainstream culture i.e. European but be able to see what our individual strengths are that can be shared in our collective communities.

Definitely a resource that I think will be of much benefit to our communities. Why not give it a try on www.atumai.nz ...