Ms Penaia realised more needed to be done to help her "village".
"If our young people did not have access to that information — the correct information — our elders would not get it," she said.Through The Pasifika Navigators, a youth advocacy and advisory group, Ms Penaia has been a frontrunner in streamlining COVID-19 information. "Having that information coming from our people, you have a little bit more security there and I think that really reassured our elders a lot more," Ms Penaia said.
It isn't uncommon for Ms Penaia to receive calls from friends asking her to speak to their family members about vaccines and the pandemic.
HEALTH FIRST and STAY SAFE.
When black or brown people are vaccine hesitant they have simply been subjected to misinformation, but when white people are vaccine hesitant we are called crazy right wing anti-vaxxers
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