A big thank you all involved with Eket\u0101huna Club Quiz Night in February; your generosity raised a $1500
donation. This will help us keep our health centre running. Thank you to St. Cuthberts Church for further food bank donations. We look forward to reporting on fundraising efforts from the Inaugural Eket\u0101huna Health Centre Horse Trek which takes place on Sunday 30 March.<\/strong>
This month, we welcome back Sara who returns from maternity leave.
Flu vaccines will soon be available at Eket\u0101huna Health Centre. <\/strong>Book in with the nurses for appointments from Tuesday 1 April. Ask about your eligibility; it may be free<\/em>.
Ryan the physiotherapist <\/strong>is at the health centre every other Wednesday; clinics in April are Wednesday 9 and 23 April. Please book online with Back in Action.
Our next monthly ladies\u2019 brunch <\/strong>will be on Monday 14 April 11am at St. Cuthberts Hall. If you would like to attend, please contact Emma, our community coordinator, on 021 250 3015<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Flu Vaccinations now available, Community Garden, Well being activities, Physio, Gym, Food Bank, Pataka kai<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-community_services","category-health-centre","category-health-centre-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5465"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5470,"href":"https:\/\/www.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5465\/revisions\/5470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Our Weekly Well-Being activities are: <\/strong>
Mondays Chair Yoga 9.45am at St. Cuthberts Hall and
Wednesdays Menz Shed (next to the health centre) from 9.30am<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The health centre provides space in the rooms at the back for:
Community Mental Health Coach, Plunkett and Counselling services.<\/strong> Please contact the nurses for a referral.
Tuesday 1 April 1pm \u2013 3pm Wairarapa Law drop-in free advice.<\/strong>
Constituency clinic with Mike Butterick or a member of his team: Friday 11 April 10am \u2013 1pm
Gym facilities<\/strong> are open during clinic hours. We do require you sign up to use these before you start but
thereafter use at your convenience for gold coin donation.
Thank you to the growers of Eket\u0101huna who continue to add their excess produce to the pataka kai. Its great to see such abundance and sharing. The harvest of potatoes grown here at Eket\u0101huna Community Garden have been added to our food parcel<\/em>s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The popular Eket\u0101huna Crop Swap is Sunday 13 April 10.30am. Please ensure you bring something garden related to swap. Our community garden working bee will be on Thursday 17 April 10am -12.
To celebrate the end of the season, we will be having burger night on Thursday 10 April 6pm \u2013 7pm. All
welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eket\u0101huna Food Bank can provide kai assistance to those living in Eket\u0101huna. Call or text Emma on 021 250 3015 to access this service.
Lee-Anne, Kendra, Kim, Sara, Emma and the Executive Board<\/p>\n\n\n![\"nurses\"](\"https:\/\/www.eketahuna.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/nurses_hearts.png\")
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Mission Statement: Te Whare Ora O Eket\u0101huna \u2013 Eket\u0101huna Health Centre aims to provide services to
promote a healthy community- through affordable health services, community participation and education<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"