| 词条 | Vanessa Heleta |
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Heleta is the founder and Director of the Talitha Project, an organisation which runs a drop-in centre for young women and girls in Tonga, providing security, counselling, training, income generation skills and support. Heleta has also worked to raise the marriage age of girls in Tonga, particularly through the ‘Let Girls be Girls’ campaign.[2] Heleta is also the National Director of Special Olympics in Tonga. She has led athletes to participate in regional and international sports competitions such as the Asia-Pacific Special Olympics in Australia in 2013 and the World Special Olympics in Los Angeles in 2015, at which Tonga won its first gold medal in an Olympic Games.[1][3][4][5] She has also run Camp Shriver, a camp experience designed by Eunice Shriver, the founder of the Special Olympics movement, in Tonga specifically for young women and girls with disabilities.[6] References1. ^1 {{Cite news|url=http://www.spc.int/70-inspiring-pacific-women/vanessa-heleta/|title=Vanessa Heleta|date=2017-08-28|work=Pacific Community|access-date=2018-04-02|language=en-US}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:HELETA, VANESSA}}2. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/331923/over-50-child-marriages-a-year-in-tonga|title=Over 50 child marriages a year in Tonga|date=2017-05-30|work=Radio New Zealand|access-date=2018-04-02|language=en-nz}} 3. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/tongan/en/audiotrack/intv-vanessa-heleta-tonga-team|title=Intv. Vanessa Heleta from Tonga team|work=SBS Your Language|access-date=2018-04-02|language=en}} 4. ^{{Cite news|url=https://matangitonga.to/2015/08/03/100m-gold-completes-medal-sweep-tongas-special-olympians|title=100m Gold completes medal sweep for Tonga's Special Olympians|date=2015-08-02|work=Matangitonga|access-date=2018-04-02|language=en}} 5. ^{{Cite news|url=http://nukualofatimes.tbu.to/?p=1315|title=Tomasi is Tonga’s first Olympic Gold Medallist|date=2015-08-07|work=Nuku'alofa Times|access-date=2018-04-02|language=en-US}} 6. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2013-11-04/tongan-women-with-intellectual-disabilities-learning-to-protect-themselves-from-sexual-abuse/1214056|title=Tongan women with intellectual disabilities learning to protect themselves from sexual abuse|website=www.radioaustralia.net.au|language=en-intl|access-date=2018-04-02}} 6 : Living people|Tongan activists|Tongan women's rights activists|Special Olympics|21st-century Tongan women|Year of birth missing (living people) |
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