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feedback and concerns directly from our members to support this. As the weather cools down, it serves as a timely reminder to book your pneumococcal vaccinations. Don’t forget MDANZ subsidises the fee for the Pneuomvax 23 vaccine – email us at info@mda.org.nz for more information. Stay safe – noho haumaru. Supporting our members in all areas of life. Kōrero with Trevor FROM THE DESK I hope you have all been keeping well as Omicron spreads throughout the country. These are still unsettling and challenging times for our members and their whānau. This issue of In Touch ties in with some key events for the women in our community; International Women’s Day (March 8) and upcoming Mother’s Day (May 8). The women in our MDA community are celebrated in this magazine; frommothers to entrepreneurs and it is great to support them, their businesses and personal endeavors. We were pleased to hear that the Disability Rights Commissioner is using powers under the Human Rights Act to launch an inquiry into the support of disabled people during the Omicron outbreak (page 3) . MDANZ was invited to contribute to the inquiry, and provided Trevor Jenkin National Executive Chairperson