2006 Recipients

World of Difference Recipients 2006 Announced!

On Thursday 5th October, the Vodafone New Zealand Foundation announced the 2006 recipients of the World of Difference programme. Five Kiwis were selected, all of whom share a commitment to helping, mentoring and inspiring our youth.

Billie Paea
Billie Paea is working with Crosspower Ministries Trust as director of one of its most successful youth programmes, hip-hop dance troupe Dziah. Hip-hop is the culture of South Auckland and a perfect way to inspire young people who have nowhere else to turn. Dziah has proven it can hold its own internationally after winning silver in the 2006 Hip Hop World Championships in L.A.
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Maree Burns
Maree Burns is working with Eating Difficulties Education Network (EDEN) to help young New Zealanders struggling with potentially devastating eating difficulties and to get eating difficulties and disorders on the government health agenda. A key focus for Maree is developing services aimed at prevention and health promotion in this area.
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Richard Aston
Richard Aston is spending his World of Difference year with the Big Buddy Mentoring Trust. The Trust helps provide positive male role models for fatherless boys from Orewa to Papakura. Funding from the World of Difference programme is giving Richard the opportunity to set up the Big Buddy programme in at least four other centres in the North Island.
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Paul Fong
Police College physical training instructor Paul Fong is spending his year as project director for a new programme in Paraparaumu called Youth Quest.  The programme offers a disciplined and regimented three-month programme which will initially target at-risk youth throughout the Kapiti and Horowhenua areas.
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Deborah Morris-Travers
The fifth recipient is Deborah Morris-Travers, from Otaki, who is working with Every Child Counts, an initiative created by some of the nation's most significant non-government organisations to advocate for children and young people.
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(left to right…Paul Fong, Richard Aston, Mree Burns, Neil Porteous (Vodafone Foundation Chairman), Deborah Morris-Travers, Billie Paea)