A Tsunami of support through school partnership

Michelle Curran

By Michelle Curran
Published July 7, 2016

A devastating tsunami in the Samoan village of Poutasi has been the catalyst of a positive partnership between Auckland-based Kristin School and the village’s three schools.

Although the Kristin Pasifika Project was born out of an event which killed many and destroyed the village infrastructure, it ...

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