Prime minister launches children's literacy foundation.New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. Prime Minister Helen Clark
Ms Clark officiated at the launch of the Dymocks Literacy Foundation in New Zealand, at which the first of the foundation's projects--Books for NZ Babies--was also announced. The campaign is being run in partnership with Kidz First Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Noun 1. neonatal intensive care unit - an intensive care unit designed with special equipment to care for premature or seriously ill newborn NICU ICU, intensive care unit - a hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care and the South Auckland South Auckland is an area of Auckland, New Zealand characterised in the popular mind as a socio-economically below-average, and sometimes rough, urban area with a relatively large Polynesian and Māori population. Health Foundation and will roll out across the country as the literacy foundation develops. As part of the campaign the Dymocks Literacy Foundation will produce Baby Bookpacks in consultation with Kidz First, comprising a free book and reading tips, to be distributed to parents of premature and critically ill babies in the neonatal unit, with the goal of encouraging them to read to their newborns. Patrons of the Dymocks NZ Literacy Foundation include two well-known authors--New Zealand children's writer Margaret Mahy and best-selling Australian author Bryce Courtenay. |
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