The REOSA Walk - education & support
Education on how to keep children safe from sexual abuse.
Auckland
REOSA is an initiative, started by sisters Libby Taylor and Kate Hattaway, to create hope, dispel loneliness and encourage understanding by raising awareness about the negative ripple effects of sexual abuse in Aotearoa.
What you are about to read is unpleasant and needs to change: One in three girls may be sexually abused before the age of 16 and one in six boys may be sexually abused by adulthood. The ripple effects of this abuse are devastating for individuals, their families, friends and communities.
As a country, we can do something, and awareness and education are our best tools to combat this devastatingly prevalent issue and create a brighter future. REOSA, with support from HELP Auckland – a specialised service for survivors of sexual abuse – is publishing and distributing a handbook titled Keeping Our Tamariki Safe from Sexual Harm. This handbook is part of a nationwide initiative to ensure that communities throughout Aotearoa receive an accessible resource specifically created to educate and support parents, grandparents, caregivers and organisations to keep their children and young family members safe from sexual abuse. A digital version of this handbook is also available for free on REOSA’s website at https://www.reosa.co.nz/
REOSA is also working with author Michelle Derrig to distribute copies of her book ‘Only For Me’, a book that teaches children about their right to privacy and how to protect their own bodies in a gentle and age-appropriate way. This book is beautifully illustrated, and has been reviewed by Kids Book Review as "possibly the BEST BOOK on the topics of body protection and sexual abuse prevention for young children."
If you or anyone you know has any questions about purchasing either book, please email us at hello@reosa.co.nz and our support team will be happy to help!
If you would like to learn more about REOSA, please visit our website and if you would like to keep up-to-date with what the REOSA Team is up to, please follow our Facebook and Instagram pages.
With gratitude,
Ngā mihi nui,
Libby, Kate and the REOSA Team xo
Use of funds
The funds received will go to printing and distributing booklets that educate and support parents, grandparents and caregivers about how to keep children safe from sexual abuse.
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REOSA Education and Support Give A Little Page 29 January 2023
Ngā mihi nui ki a koe
Huge gratitude to you
With your help, REOSA has raised $6570 towards printing and distributing books that raise awareness around sexual abuse in Aotearoa. These books help to reduce the ripple effects of sexual abuse for children and their families, as well as create awareness throughout communities.
We have had such positive feedback from those that have read the book, many saying that ‘Only For Me’ by Michelle Derrig is now a family favourite. Empowering our children to be in charge of their own bodies is so important, so keep up the great work and keep reading this book to your kids! The Keeping Our Tamariki Safe From Sexual Harm handbook is invaluable for parents and all caregivers, and is also available as a PDF download on our website.
Every dollar raised has made a difference, so we would like to thank each and every one of you for your support.
If anyone is wanting more books, please email hello@reosa.co.nz
Our Give A Little page will be closing on 1st February 2023. You can head over to our website and social media pages to keep up to date with REOSA.
Website – www.reosa.co.nz
Instagram - @reosa_nz
Facebook - @reosa.newzealand
Nāku iti noa, nā
Yours sincerely,
The REOSA Team
Latest donations
Thank you so much for your support on The REOSA Education page and we are thrilled you like the resources that have been available throughout The REOSA Walk. We hope that both books will not only encourage conversations with your family, but will open opportunities to have conversations with friends. We so appreciate your support. Thank you Kate, Libby and The REOSA Team
Thank you once again to you amazing women for you encouragement of REOSA and for your support of our education and support page. You have not only encouraged us to know that what REOSA set out to do and has achieved has been right, you are also enabling us to continue supporting our initiative of creating hope, dispelling loneliness and encouraging understanding by raising awareness about the negative ripple effects of sexual abuse. And part of raising awareness is the distributing of the books. Thank you for supporting us in this. Kate, Libby and The REOSA Team
Sarah and Barney thank you so much for those amazing words of support and your generous donation. Though Libby and Kate were the walkers there was an amazing team behind them that we are all so incredibly proud of. And our hope that these books will continue to make our communities safe and thank you for your part in that by donating to our education and support page. Kate, Libby and The REOSA Team
Angela thank you for these powerful words and for your donation. Walking alongside you at Kerikeri was a wonderful gift to us and you are a wonderful gift to many that you work with up north. Thank you for all you do for others and for the support you have given us so we can continue to support others. Thank you Ange Libby, Kate and The REOSA Team
Sally thank you so much for your encouraging and supportive words for REOSA and for your generous donation to our education and support page. To distribute the books "Keeping our Tamariki Safe from Sexual Harm" and 'Only for me" on our supporter walks was very special and your donation has helped us do that. Thank you Kate, Libby and The REOSA Team
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