Online Support - Kaitautoko Tuihono
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Get yourself someone who is on your side. Get yourself an Ally. The Allies are young adults trained to be supportive, respectful, and help you work out what you want in life.
You get your own person who is there for you, and checks in several times a week so see how you are, and tell you how great you are. Cause you are. |
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Kia ora, I'm Sarah. I can can link you up with one of our great digital mentors. They are a team of senior students called the Allies. An Ally is someone who is on your side. It's all done right on your mobile phone using Skype Messenger. |
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As your Ally, we can keep in touch throughout the week. I'm here to listen, care, show respect, and hopefully brighten up your day. I'm interested in where you want to go in the future, and how to get there. |
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The Allies is about young people supporting young people. We are all young or youngish ourselves, and do this in our spare time. I'm lucky enough to get to know a great girl in Timaru. |
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We have been trained by Youthline, and work to a code of ethics - based on showing you respect and positive support. We are supervised. We were selected because we are friendly, emotionally mature, don't judge and do care about others. |
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You need to be between 12 and 16 years old, and like messaging. You'll also need a device (smartphone is best), and access to wifi. |
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Mauria te pono. |
The Allies Digital Mentoring programme is kindly sponsored by the Vodafone Foundation and the Ministry of Youth Development
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