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News stories2025-04-28T15:06:14+12:00

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Media contact: Ali Ikram | Phone: 09 926 7850 | Email: ali.ikram@manukau.ac.nz

1202, 2016

From healthcare to building healthy homes

With a nursing career spanning 12 years, in London, Samoa, Australia and New Zealand, Elizabeth Cruickshank felt like she needed a change of direction. "I asked myself, what would make me feel fulfilled? And I decided to give building a go." At the beginning of 2015, she enrolled in the Manukau Institute of Technology Certificate of Carpentry with financial assistance from a Māori and Pasifika Trades Training Scholarship.

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