Piri’anga Alofa Pacific and Community Services - making a positive impact on the life of others.

Find out more about the services that Piri'anga Alofa Pacific and Community Services provide on their website. 

Piri’anga Alofa is dedicated to delivering meaningful and responsive community support. Our mission is to connect with and empower Pacific communities through culturally relevant services and holistic approaches, ensuring resilience and well-being across generations.

Piri’anga is the Cook Island word for relationships and connections that have relevance.  These relationships or connections are multiple collectives within family, community and associations to Whānau Manaaki.  Piri’anga are connections that require the acknowledgement and support of others and sustained through practice.

Alofa in the languages of Samoan, Tokelauan and Tuvaluan encompasses a rich tapestry of meanings that go beyond the simple translation of ‘Love’. It embodies values like compassion, kindness, mercy, affections, hospitality, empathy and devotion. These multifaceted definitions interconnect and play integral roles in various piri’anga within family, community, the workplace and other collectives associated with our organisation.

As part of her series in the Listener 'Hardship and Hope' Rebecca Macfie wrote an in-depth article about our community work in Porirua East. Read the full story here. 

In the video below you can learn more about an integral community service run by Piri'anga Alofa.