Our Work
F’INE (fee-neh) is a Pacific LGBTQI+ / MVPFAFF+ focused Charitable Trust that provides Whānau Ora navigational services to:
Fa’afafine or Fa’atama (Samoa, American Samoa), Fakaleiti or Leiti (Tonga), Fakafifine (Niue), Akava’ine (Cook Islands), Vakasalewalewa (Fiji), Palopa (Papua New Guinea), Mahu (Hawaii) Haka huahine (Tokelau) and Rae rae (Tahiti),
The Rainbow community also includes a wider spectrum of western identities and terms, such as: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning and Intersex community and their families.
The above is a snapshot of identities and terms which also includes a wide range of people with various gender identities and sexual orientations not listed above.
This support is available to Pasifika MVPFAFF / LGBTQI+ peoples and their families in the Auckland region.
We endeavour to support rural Pasifika LGBTQI peoples and their whānau/fanau with pathways and connection to services if they are not available in their home town.
Fa’afafine or Fa’atama (Samoa, American Samoa), Fakaleiti or Leiti (Tonga), Fakafifine (Niue), Akava’ine (Cook Islands), Vakasalewalewa (Fiji), Palopa (Papua New Guinea), Mahu (Hawaii) Haka huahine (Tokelau) and Rae rae (Tahiti),
The Rainbow community also includes a wider spectrum of western identities and terms, such as: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning and Intersex community and their families.
The above is a snapshot of identities and terms which also includes a wide range of people with various gender identities and sexual orientations not listed above.
This support is available to Pasifika MVPFAFF / LGBTQI+ peoples and their families in the Auckland region.
We endeavour to support rural Pasifika LGBTQI peoples and their whānau/fanau with pathways and connection to services if they are not available in their home town.
The Manalagi Project
Enhancing the Mana of Pacific Peoples through Research
The Manalagi: Aotearoa Pacific Rainbow Health and Wellbeing Project is funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand. It aims to create a safe cultural research space for Pacific Rainbow+ communities to communicate their unique health and wellbeing needs.
As both Pacific and Rainbow individuals face stigma as a barrier to their health and wellbeing in New Zealand, the Manalagi project takes the ethos of co-community driven, embedded and owned, to empower Pacific Rainbow communities to help co-design health policy and services through research. The project will document self-reported health information for those who self-identify as part of the Pacific Rainbow community through a three-year period. This consists of extensive community consultation; delivery of a Pacific Rainbow Health Survey aimed at collecting 500-1000 respondents, and a culturally-appropriate collection and documentation of 50-60 Pacific Rainbow individual narratives detailing their experiences with health service delivery through the blending of talanoa, Pacific concepts of space like the va, and relationality with qualitative interviews.
F.I.N.E Festival 2021
F.I.NE = Family, Identity, Nurture, Equality
F'INE Pasifika Aotearoa is a proud community partner with Auckland Councils "Proud Centres" team.
The F.I.N.E Festival is the first Pasifika Festival of its kind held during Auckland Pride Month. The festival focuses on providing a platform for Pasifika LGBTQI+ / MVPFAFF+ community members & groups to showcase their talents, creativity, products, thoughts and ideas.
This festival welcomes families, friends and allies to celebrate with Pasifika LGBTQI+ / MVPFAFF+ peoples their identities, lived experiences and talents.
The F.I.N.E Festival is Co-produced with F'INE Pasifika Aotearoa Navigator + Creative, Amanaki Prescott-Faletau alongside the Proud Centres Team.
Be sure to look out for a bigger and more exciting F.I.N.E Fest 2022.
If you have an interest in being involved with F.I.N.E Fest 2022, please use our "Contact page" to email us.
Pictures: Copyright of Peter Jennings NZ - Feb 2021
WEAVING RAINBOWS - NINIVA TAGALOA & PHYLESHA BROWN-ACTON
F'INE customer Niniva Tagaloa and F'INE Director Phylesha Brown-Acton share a story of navigation and partnership.
Check out the Weaving Rainbow series produced by TheCoconetTV by clicking the "Learn more" button.
Strenthening Solutions for Pasefika Rainbow
Keynote speech by Phylesha Brown-Acton presented at GPS 2.0: Growing Pacific Solutions for our communities national Pacific conference, Auckland, New Zealand, in March 2014.
Co-authored by Phylesha Brown-Acton and Maiava Carmel Peteru.
Published by Le Va.
