At-home activities
We are very proud to present our rebranded youth programme Live Brave Mana Ora.
We recognise that children and youth with diabetes, and their families, are incredible in how they overcome the odds every day. ‘Live Brave’, or ‘Mana Ora’ in Māori, celebrates their courage and resilience and encourages them to live with courage. Live Brave Mana Ora will be used for all our youth activities and events.
As part of our new brand, we have developed a character who will be part of our logo and who we hope our tamariki and rangatahi will embrace as their own. Nights are often the hardest for our youth and their families, so we’ve chosen a ruru/morepork, who is also awake at night. Recognised in various owl forms around the world, the ruru represents wisdom, prudence, guardianship, awareness and protection, all traits that we want our youth with diabetes to feel when they think of our ruru.
Tamariki and rangatahi with diabetes live with many additional challenges.
One of these is being stuck at home when their diabetes is calling for a sick day. We’ll be adding content to this page on an on-going basis to keep you entertained when you’re having “one of those days”.
Email us below with suggestions for what you’d like to see on here!
Colouring in activity
Click on the image to download, print and get colouring!
Sign up for our youth newsletter
Our newsletter doesn’t have a name – we’re leaving that to you. Get your thinking caps on now and send your suggestions through to youth@diabetes.org.nz. We’ll be running a poll to decide the winner for this too, keep an eye out on Facebook and Instagram.