Looking back on 2024: This year has been a journey of resilience, growth, and unshakable belief in the value of what we do at Pacific Kids' Learning. Through every high and low, we have held steadfast to our mission, knowing that our work is about so much more than creative technology or animation - it is about transforming systems and nurturing a digital vā with Indigenous intelligence, where our tamaiti can thrive. Our commitment is rooted in creating spaces, structures, and opportunities that have historically been out of reach for Pacific communities. This work is about reclaiming, rebuilding, and designing a digital future that uplifts our children and their cultural identity. In 2024, we celebrated incredible milestones: 🌺 We launched our own children's digital library with nearly 300 animated stories, songs, and dances across 10 Pacific languages. 🌺 We produced and premiered a Pacific language children’s feature film at Hoyts Cinemas. 🌺 We ran in-school animation workshops, inspiring young creators to become digital storytellers. 🌺 We have published 8 eBooks, soon to be 16 eBooks in Gagana Samoa and Lea Faka Tonga. 🌺 We travelled across to Hawai‘i, Tonga, and Samoa, taking our children's digital library and Pacific ed-tech tools, placing them into the hands of our children who need them most. As a small, women-led, and Pacific-driven organisation, adversity has only sharpened our determination. In just this past month, we are humbled and proud to announce that: 🌸 PKL has been entrusted to continue supporting the NZ Pacific Language Week initiatives for 2025. 🌸 We signed on our first global funder, opening new doors for social impact. 🌸 We formalised partnerships with our first Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). 🌸 Our eShop is ready for PKL merchandise. Watch this space for Term 1 school products! Vi'ia le Ali'i! We remain deeply grateful to every hand that has held us up this year - our village, partners, collaborators, and families. Together, we are building a mana-enhancing digital space for our tamaiti, one story at a time. Wishing you all a blessed Christmas season. See you in 2025! Tatiana Marich #TakingTheVillageOnline
Pacific Kids' Learning
Animation and Post-production
Enabling cultural and language immersion through impactful digital learning resources.
About us
We are creating a new landscape for education and empowerment. Our vision is simple yet transformative: to ignite young minds, foster creativity, and create a new paradigm for education that is engaging, impactful and sovereign. Pacific Kids' Learning has evolved into a shared mission to revolutionise the educational experience for children. STEAM education together with cultural empowerment are the cornerstones of this mission. Traditional learning methods often fail to capture the essence of curiosity and creativity that children inherently possess. We want to change this. We have designed an environment where children are not just passive recipients of knowledge, but active creators of their own learning journey. The Pacific Digital Library, launched in January 2024 is PKL's video streaming platform where young learners, parents and teachers can access values-driven heritage stories, songs and dances in the animation format, co-designed by the community. Teacher support resources can also be accessed via our digital library. PKL also facilitates the Young Pasifika Animators (YPA) workshops. These workshops are intentionally designed to unlock students' creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration skills. It's also a tactile exercise in which young learners utilise design-thinking to drive their own narratives. The Pacific Digital Stories (PDS) Project amplifies the stories of our young people, and elders. Animations are co-designed authentically by Pacific communities. We recognise that educators are key drivers in these programs. They equip teachers with the technical skills and tools to facilitate dynamic and engaging learning experiences that redesign every day classroom instruction. No more exhaustive lesson planning! Our range of programs will provide comprehensive support and resources, freeing educators to focus on what truly matters: inspiring young minds.
- Website
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https://pacifickidslearning.co.nz/
External link for Pacific Kids' Learning
- Industry
- Animation and Post-production
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Auckland
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2019
- Specialties
- Pacific Education Support, Pacific Digital Stories Workshops, Kids Song Animations, Kids Story Animations, Animation Workshops, Gaming Workshops, 3D Printing Workshops, and Pacific Language Animations
Locations
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Primary
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Auckland, NZ
Employees at Pacific Kids' Learning
Updates
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#PacificDigitalStorytelling Aki | Knucklebones is a beloved bilingual eBook penned by the talented Sisilia Eteuati, published as part of the newly released Aoao Series. PKL feels deeply honoured to have published 8 eBooks in Gagana Sāmoa and English, in partnership with the Ministry of Education New Zealand. Sisilia Eteuati @sisiliasays is a gifted writer, creative, and accomplished lawyer, is the co-editor of Vā - Stories by Women of the Moana, a powerful anthology by various talented Pacific women authors. As the co-founder of Tatou Publishing, Sisilia has championed Pacific voices while practicing law in Samoa, Australia, and Aotearoa. Her literary works have touched the hearts of many across the Pacific. We were privileged to have Sisilia join our eBook Project team, where she gifted us two unforgettable eBooks: ✨ Aki | Knucklebones - https://lnkd.in/giukr9dB ✨ `O le Fai Tala Nūmera Lua - Second Best Storyteller https://lnkd.in/gRmFWXmU Dive into these heart warming stories today in Samoan or English via MoE’s Tahurangi website. #PacificDigitalStorytelling #PacificEBooks #TakingTheVillageOnline
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O le Vaitafe o Papa | Grandpa’s River written by Jane Va'afusuaga is a treasured bilingual eBook published as part of the Aoao Series. PKL is proud to have published 8 eBooks in Gagana Sāmoa and English, in partnership with the Ministry of Education New Zealand. Jane is now a teacher at Favona Primary School, having relocated to Auckland after living in Sāmoa for many years. Her husband Olsen continues his great work at FEPS Falease’ela Environment Protection Society. Thank you Jane for trusting PKL with this story. You can read it now in Samoan or English via MoE’s Tahurangi website https://lnkd.in/gkjZaPfX. #PacificDigitalStorytelling #PacificEBooks #TakingTheVillageOnline
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Looking forward to paddling alongside the PIEFEST vaka next year! 🌎 Pasifika in #SiliconValley #PasifikaInSTEAM
PIEFEST’s Annual Bay Area Pasifika STEM Fair: An experience where the Pacific Islander (PI) community, local STEM-learning programs, various Silicon Valley employee resource groups, college/university student groups, and PI-serving community based organizations converge to empower our youth in STEM. Do you want to support this movement? I’m happy to share how you can get involved. Send me a message.
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#2024Recap - O le ala i le pule o le tautua 🙌 As the year winds down, we’re filled with gratitude reflecting on an incredible journey. Being a small team with a big vision, it’s taken courage, determination, and resilience to champion innovation in Pacific Education. But none of this would have been possible without our unwavering faith and the incredible support from our village - our families, collaborators, community, and online village who walk this path with us. This journey is for all of us, and we are so thankful! #Highlights from #CHOGMSamoa2024: ✨ CHOGM Women’s Forum ✨ CHOGM Trade Village ✨ Digital Workshop at SVSG Samoa Fa'afetai tele lava for believing in our mission and allowing us to be a part of this amazing story. Here’s to even greater things ahead! #InnovatePacificEducation #CulturallyIntelligentTechnology #VillageSupport #LookingAhead #ThePacificDigitalLibrary
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#PacificDigitalStorytelling - and here is our final animation release for 2024 cheehoo! LIVE now via The Pacific Digital Library https://lnkd.in/gX6sdrFn 🌴🏉 The Rugby Challenge: A Story of Family, Fun, and Determination 🏉🌴 Tailevai’s trip to Palauli Savai’i was more than just a holiday - it was a chance to reconnect, work hard, and play even harder. Under the hot Samoan sun, cutting grass felt endless, but teamwork and perseverance brought rewards: a thrilling family rugby match with the cuzzies! 🏃♂️🔥 Through laughter, distraction (juicy mangoes 🍋😄), and pure determination, the game became a lesson in courage and unfiltered joy. It’s a reminder that true victories aren’t just about winning, but the memories we create together. 💪✨ “Lua pati, hei hei, ho! Cheehoooo!” Tailevai Fatupaito from Onehunga Primary School, teaches us to cherish our culture, family, and every hard-earned triumph. 🌺 Fa’amālō atu also to the amazing illustrator Theodore Ah Wong for bringing Tailevai’s words to life on the screen 🙌🏽 #familyfirst @samfatupaito #samoandigitalstories #samoananimation #SavaiiStories
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PKL was honoured to be an exhibitor at #Tech24 🙌🏽 We were grateful for the opportunity to showcase #PacificDigitalStorytelling using our VR tools designed and developed using Pacific environments, language, dance and song - an innovative extension of our Pacific Digital Library platform. #CulturallyIntelligentTechnology #CulturallyInformedDesign #PrioritiseOurLanguagesInTechDesign #ThePacificDigitalLibrary
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#PacificDigitalStorytelling Team Tokelau are in the studio! 🇹🇰 We’re so excited to be in production mode again, working away on a new collection of children’s songs and digital dances that will feature on The Pacific Digital Library in 2025! We are intentional about our Library platform expressing our stories in our traditional formats - through tusitala, tusi ‘ata, pese and siva, and including the careful transformation of these formats into the digital vā as a village, it’s a curated methodology that we’re proud of at PKL! So stay locked in, continue to pray for our village who live, breathe, eat and sleep this work! A massive fakafetai to Tokelau musician and Bilingual Educator Sulata Foa’i-Amiatu and her team for walking the journey alongside PKL - ensuring the digital vā is safe, nurturing and uplifting for our Pasifika kids 🙌🏽 #PacificDigitalDance - Round 2 is coming!🔥🔥🔥
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And again! Another eBook in Gagana Sāmoa 🇼🇸 fa’afetai tele lava to the Ministry of Education New Zealand for their valued partnership! 🙌🏽 Margaret Vaka-Vivili, PhD, Esa Bronwyn Samani and @elizabethKeresoma `Ūlālole Sukalati mo Tagata `Uma! | Chocolate Necklaces for Everyone This story captures the excitement and joy of making ūlālole sukalati (chocolate necklaces) with Mum and the aunties. Time, effort and love goes into creating something special, only to gift it away ♥️ Written by Theresa Tupuola-Sorenson Illustrated by Tomasi Greentree Animation by Nik Scarr Translated in Gagana Sāmoa by Repeka Vui and Malo Sepuloni Narrated in Gagana Sāmoa by Elianna Amituana’i Narrated in English by Elisabeth Kumaran Available in Gagana Sāmoa and in English. https://lnkd.in/gfY3uS4q Music credit: Samoa le Penina Oe, by Puni #SamoanEBooks #PacificDigitalStories #StoriesToldByUs #BilingualEducation
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eBooks in Gagana Sāmoa 🇼🇸 fa’afetai tele lava to the Ministry of Education New Zealand for their valued partnership! Margaret Vaka-Vivili, PhD, Esa Bronwyn Samani we appreciate you 🙌🏽 O le Vaitafe o Papa | Grandpa’s River Two brothers hear stories about the river that flows at the back of their Grandpa’s house in Sāmoa. Written by Jane Va’afusuaga Illustrated by Tomasi Greentree Animation by Nik Scarr Translated in Gagana Sāmoa by Nerra Lealiifano-Tamarua and Malo Sepuloni Narrated in Gagana Sāmoa by Nathanael Afereti and O’Driscoll Tanuvasa Narrated in English by Lyall Faulalo Created by Pacific Kids’ Learning Available in Gagana Sāmoa and in English. https://lnkd.in/gkjZaPfX Music: SivaSamoa 2k24 by Wayno #SamoanEBooks #PacificDigitalStories #StoriesToldByUs #BilingualEducation