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Farming Dairy Focus
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COMMENT FROM EDITOR
GIVEAWAY Win this gorgeous pamper pack: Just answer this question correctly and send your answer to Dairy Focus, 161 Burnett Street, Ashburton 7700 or email Nadine.P@theguardian.co.nz with your details. Who said “”My IQ is one of the highest — and you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure; it’s not your fault.”
This issue is for you. We also urge our You the mum, you the Government to not partner, the financial ignore our rural operator, the woman women. that’s working longer The greatest support hours on farm or in a downturn is each seeking work off farm other. to get through. We just need to find Nadine RURAL You the comforting the glue that holds us Porter REPORTER shoulder, the heart all together – whether Tweet us @farmjourno of the home and the it be informal coffee eternally optimistic gatherings, pot-luck half of the equation dinners, movie nights because someone has to be. because then we understand we are not You who feels alone, lost and alone in all of this. drowning. Every part We hear your of our rural voice. We hear community feels There are people in your struggle. splintered and And while it’s sore and weary at every community, reassuring to the moment but know our men’s we must look to in every region of mental health has our families, our this country who been top priority, schools as our it doesn’t mean sustenance because will respond if you you have been they remind us reach out forgotten. of what remains We know you constant long after are struggling. this year’s pay-out We know you has passed. have different needs to males. And There are people in every community, we know those needs might not be in every region of this country who will necessarily met. respond if you reach out. We urge you to reach out to someone So reach out for those people. There is in your community – be it a neighbour no shame in talking, in sharing because or another mother at school. in sharing we halve the load.
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