Whanake: The Pacific Journal of Community Development is a bi-annual digital journal for practitioners and academics who love community development. This issue features articles on youth volunteering, voluntourism, discrimination against gender-diverse tertiary students, poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand, youth HIV/AIDS awareness in Papua New Guinea, and a consideration of the Pope’s Laudato si’ encyclical in terms of CD practice. It also includes reports from the recent World Community Development Conference in Ireland and the associated IACD conference exchange.

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The experiences of diverse-gender tertiary students: Structural discrimination and microaggressions
Catherine Powell and Helen Gremillion


Laudato si’ – establishing local approaches for global ecological conversion
Anne Jennings


Engaging youth in community action research: a visual methods approach to HIV and AIDS awareness
Joys Eggins, Evangelia Papoutsaki and Verena Thomas


Placing youth in a volunteer framework
Maryanne Wardlaw


Rethinking the true impact of voluntourism in line with new community development standards
Eleanor Parkes


Poverty in New Zealand
David Haigh