“Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another”
– Henry Nouwen
RESEARCHERS say there is a need for a national website where male survivors of sexual abuse, their whanau and friends can tap into information, services and self-help resources . . . and that is where Male Survivors Aotearoa can help.…
While it is connected to a men’s centre set up to confront whanau violence, the new Te Hokai: Male Survivors Tairawhiti service is for victims, not perpetrators, of abuse. IT was the events in Gisborne of late 2006 that were…
A Gisborne support service for male survivors of sexual abuse is run by men, for men, with a particular focus on te tane Tairawhiti. A GISBORNE support service for male survivors of sexual abuse is overseen by Tauawhi Trust, a…
WHEN thinking about creating a name for Te Hokai: Male Survivors Tairawhiti, artist Nick Tupara sat on the riverbank in Turanga – where the three rivers meet – to reflect on what that might look like. Talking at Te Hokai’s…
A Gisborne support service for male survivors of sexual abuse is run by men, for men, with a particular focus on te tane Tairawhiti. “YOU’RE weak.” “You let him.” “You’re gay.” “You were asking for it.” These falsehoods often run…
MANY Kiwi males never talk about the sexual abuse they have suffered and there are many reasons for that, says Wellington male sexual abuse agency Mosaic-Tiaki Tangata. It might be the depth of their trauma, or it might be because…
SO many men say that in carrying their trauma, they feel absolutely alone, so they need to be in a space where they feel change is possible,” Tim Marshall , trustee of the Tauawhi Trust that oversees Tairawhiti’s Te Hokai…
WHAT do we know about effective recovery services for men who have been sexually abused? was the big question posed by the writers of a 2019 report. The answer was “not much”, but the authors of the report hoped that…
THE New Zealand Police see many – too many – incidents of sexual assault and they also hear some challenging stories to go along with them. Here are just a few of the sexual assault mythbusters NZ Police has come…
MAORI endure more than their fair share of both family and sexual violence so it could take a Maori world view to deal with it, researchers say. The fall-out from sexual assault cannot be measured by the incident (or incidences)…
