Nive Ahelemo Venning has been a founding member and cultural advisor of Tokelau Nurses and Health Workers Association o fNew Zealand since 2006.

Nive Venning has held a range of voluntary and paid language roles supporting the Pacific community, including the first Pacific branch of PAFT (Parents As First Teachers) and Community Health promotion for Regional Public Health. 

She was part of the group who helped establish Tokelau Netball in 2006. She was integral in the Tokelau representative netball team competing at the South Pacific Games in Samoa and was cultural advisor for the Tokelau Netball team at the Pacific Mini Games in 2019.

She has been Programme Manager for the Access Radio Tokelau programme in Wellington for 10 years and was instrumental in delivering the Tokelau language radio show He Tifa Ola. 

This morning we are privileged to have Nive join us to talk about being recognised in the QUeen’s New Years honors list for services to the Tokelau community and netball.