Young refugee woman smiling again thanks to Braemar Charitable Trust and specialist paediatric dentist

An 11-year-old former refugee who has been suffering with dental abscesses, is smiling once more following free dental surgery supplied by Braemar Charitable Trust and one of its long-term trustees. Aisha, one sibling and her parents were accepted into New Zealand and arrived here in 2024 under the country’s quota refugee resettlement programme. New Zealand…

New health partnership to help Waikato Pacific people

Braemar Charitable Trust and K’aute Pasifika Trust have signed an agreement to help deliver better health outcomes for Pacific people in the Waikato.    The trusts, who share a vision to improve health and wellbeing, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Friday 29 November at the K’aute Pasifika Village in Kirikiriroa Hamilton.   The agreement…

Brendon Rose has found his happy place as a gardener at Braemar Hospital

This is my happy place

Tucked in behind Braemar Hospital, a well-tended garden bears the fruits (and vegetables) of Brendon Rose’s labour of love.   “This is my happy place,” says Brendon who has been working at Braemar Hospital for two years now, developing the kitchen garden. The raised gardens and shade houses where Brendon tends his plants, quietly buffer…