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I am a European New Zealander and I have two daughters who are part-Niuean. Their father is originally from Niue Island which is located in the South Pacific Ocean. My eldest daughter at the present time, is attending the University of Waikato in order to complete her Masters in Counselling and at the same time she works for Relationship Services in Thames and on the Hauraki Plains. As from 2012 she will a Counsellor at Wesley College. She also has a B.A. in Social Sciences. My youngest daughter is a teacher in South Auckland and she has a B.A. in Education.

Soon after moving to Pukekohe in 2002, I went on holiday in the U.S.A. and Canada for two months. On my return, I went onto complete the following courses.
In 2003 - I completed a Photography Course at the Edu-Col Tertiary College of Arts and Media in Royal Oak in Auckland City.
In 2004 - I completed a Small Business Studies Course at the Te Wananga Aotearoa in Mangere in Auckland City.
In 2005 - I completed another Photography Course at the School of Visual Arts at the Manukau Institute of Technology in Otara in Auckland City.
In 2009 - I completed a course at the Manurewa High School and gained a Certificate for Advanced Digital Photography.

In 1998 - I completed a course and gained a certificate for the Application Techniques for Nu Colour Cosmetics.

From 1997 to 2000 I worked as a 'photographer of babies' for Peter Pan Studios at the Waikato Women's Hospital in Hamilton in New Zealand.

From 2007 to the present day I have worked as a Market Research Interviewer for Colmar Brunton.

I can be contacted as follows:
Margaret Vickers Photography
Email: apasifika@gmail.com
Home: (09) 2384957
Mobile: 0220794715

SEEING
It was easy to see You
in holy faces, holy places,
God made flesh in a mother's voice
or in the gentle hands of a nurse
or the smile of a grandmother
or the laughter of small children.
Every presence of love and beauty
proclaimed your advent.

I needed eyes sharpened by suffering
before I was able to see You
in the pain of human poverty.
The man who stared at a prison ceiling,
the alcoholic mother, the hungry child,
the old woman who died alone in her flat,
the young victims who grew up
to become abusers themselves,
the people who were in despair
over the inability to make changes,
when I could look at them
through the experience
of my own crucifixions,
I realized they all looked back at me
with Your Eyes!