Pacific Trust Otago

Immunisation is the safest and most effective way to provide protection for you and your tamariki’s health. For more information view the NZ immunisation schedule.

• Well Child Tamariki Ora - our nurses provide health advice and information for mothers and babies from six weeks after birth.  
• Health Link
• Sports Activities
• Research

We actively seek to partner with other organisations for funding, skills, knowledge and information to support our services.

• Pacific Pods partner - we are in partnership with four Dunedin businesses to develop a housing project for the Pacific Islands. The project is also supported by local Pacific people who have invested in the housing project.

We work in partnership with Pasifika Futures Ltd to support families and individuals make positive life changes through access to advice, planning and financial support. Our Whānau Navigators work on a face to face basis with people to provide solutions for the challenges many of them face daily.

Seniors group - seniors socialise every Friday with exercises, music, information and lunch with other Pacific people in a Pacific setting. The University of Otago School of Physiotherapy students provide support and advice for the seniors to maintain wellbeing.​

• Pacific secondary students scholarships
• Breakaway
• Rotai playgroup - parents and children meet once a week during the school term in a playgroup situation to socialise and play to learn.​ The group also arranges excursions to the many sites around Dunedin.
• Students immersion - in collaboration with the University of Otago Health Sciences / Pacific Division, medical students are offered the opportunity to be hosted by Pacific families in Dunedin for a weekend of cultural and social activities as part of their medical studies.​