Mr Peter Leilua, KSM, of Auckland, for services to the community, particularly youth and Pacific peoples
Peter Leilua has had extensive youth group involvement, mentoring and organising camps, after-school programmes, and sports teams. He co-founded Global Hope Missions Trust, which provides courthouse advocacy, academic mentoring, youth support groups and programmes. He is Pasifika Liaison for several Mt Roskill schools. He helped organise Pou Pasifika to champion Pasifika youth workers in Auckland. In response to the Auckland Anniversary floods and Cyclone Gabrielle in 2023, he co-founded the ARK (Act of Roskill Kindness) Trust and emergency hub. Mr Leilua set up the Global Lions rugby team for youth and organised a match and cultural exchange in Malaysia.