Rural Women New Zealand is the leading organisation for women who share an interest in rural issues. You don’t have to live on a farm to belong - around one third of our members live in provincial towns. Our aim is to ‘strengthen rural communities’. How do we do that? By networking, lobbying, socialising, educating and fundraising. At a local level this often means getting together with other members, organising fun events, trips and workshops, hearing interesting guest speakers, and supporting national campaigns. Our big campaign for 2009 is to improve safety for rural children travelling on school buses – in particular raising awareness of the 20kph speed limit in both directions when passing a stationary school bus. We also support rural women in business. In May we will be presenting the RWNZ Enterprising Rural Woman Award at the Grand Hall of Parliament. Sponsored by the BNZ, this prestigious new Award has attracted 46 entries representing a wide range of businesses run by women living in rural areas.
Liz Evans was announced as the new national president of Rural Women New Zealand at the organisation's national conference in Oamaru this week, as former president Margaret Chapman stepped down at the end of her three year term
Rural Women New Zealand is applauding the shift in emphasis in the Government’s rural broadband plans announced yesterday, by delivering broadband services to all rural households
Rural Women New Zealand is delighted with the quality of entries in its Enterprising Rural Women Award 2010, which closed recently
Rural Women New Zealand is angry at the planned removal of home support services for 3,000 people in Southland and Otago
Rural Women New Zealand is calling on the Government to re-think its $300 million Rural Broadband Initiative, in a white paper released yesterday
Rural Women New Zealand urges the Road Safety Trust to play Santa this Christmas and spend the $10.7 million it has accumulated from the sale of personalised number plates on the worthy grant applications it has received from community groups
Up to 400 rural clients may lose their homecare support as a result of ACC’s decision to slash travel payments for homecare workers from next Tuesday, 1 December
Rural Women New Zealand is pleased that its concerns about home and farm security have been recognized in the draft National Strategy on Walking Access, released recently
Applications are now open for the RWNZ Enterprising Rural Women Award 2010 and Kiri Elworthy strongly encourages other rural businesswomen to enter, saying the award was a great boost for the business she runs in partnership with Jenny Bargh
Rural Women New Zealand questions the wisdom of a government plan to deliver ultra-fast broadband to schools and some rural households, while others languish on dial up or no internet access at all
Proposed cuts to ACC sexual abuse counselling will badly impact women living in a rural setting, says Rural Women New Zealand
The creative inspiration of natural fibres are at the heart of many World Rural Women’s Day events organised by Rural Women New Zealand (RWNZ) members over the next few days
Rural Women New Zealand’s telecommunications spokesperson, Jacky Stafford, says that the government should be putting more money into rural broadband now, instead of the planned six year roll out of its rural broadband initiative
Rural Women New Zealand welcomes news that the Government has heeded its calls for a much greater investment in rural broadband than the paltry $48 million announced in this year’s Budget - which was a fraction of the $1.5 billion earmarked for further upgrading urban broadband
Rural Women New Zealand (RWNZ) welcomes news that Taranaki DHB will urgently investigate the setting up of primary birthing units in New Plymouth and Hawera
Since 1987, 23 children have been killed, 47 seriously injured and 92 received minor injuries when crossing the road to or from a school bus in New Zealand.
"It is important that new members in a community can participate in social and sporting groups to meet local people and to develop that feeling of belonging. Because of cultural and languages differences these migrants may find that difficult, so they need support."
Since 2007 Rural Women New Zealand has raised $107,500 to support Massey University’s research into this nasty disease that predominantly affects rural people.
In the last two years four children have been killed after getting off school buses, with more seriously injured. Between 1992 and 2001 twelve children were killed, 20 seriously injured and a further 80 suffered minor injuries in school-bus related accidents in New Zealand.
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