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The Safer Credit and Financial Inclusion Strategy launched to address problem debt
Whānau on low-incomes often have no choice but to take out high-interest loans that are unaffordable and unsustainable, just to meet their everyday needs – which often creates debt and hardship.
Pae Aronui graduate excited for future
Ko Hikurangi te maunga, ko Waiapu te awa, ko Horouta te waka, ko Mangahanea te marae, ko Ngāti Porou to iwi, ko Walter Taingahue ahau.
Whānau Ora – Lasting Change: Response to the Review Findings
These documents noted the response of te Minita mō Whānau Ora to key findings of the Review and sought Cabinet’s agreement to establish an independent reference group.
Skills learned from Pae Aronui course saves participants' nana
Two rangatahi are extremely grateful to the tutors at Vertical Horizonz for the first aid and CPR skills that aided them to save their Nana’s life during a heart attack.
Investing in our future business leaders and entrepreneurs
Supported by Te Puni Kōkiri and run by Young Enterprise Trust, the Rangatahi Business Challenge is a fun and interactive 3-day introduction to business and enterprise for year 9-11 tauira.
Youth leadership highlights first parade held in Kirikiriroa
Close to 900 people attended the inaugural Te Reo Māori parade held in Kirikiriroa this year to mark Māori Language week. Two of the youngest members of the cross-organisational group responsible for the logistics and hosting this regional event were also charged with leading the group too.
Waikato-Tainui remaining claims
The Waikato-Tainui Negotiator released a draft deed of mandate on 13 September 2019. The Office for Māori Crown Relations – Te Arawhiti (formerly the Office of Treaty Settlements) invites submissions, views or enquiries on the Negotiator’s draft deed of mandate.
A hope for the history of Aotearoa
It started with the unveiling of a plaque in Parliament to commemorate the New Zealand Wars. But in front of a crowd of figureheads from iwi across the motu, the Prime Minister announced that New Zealand history will be taught in all schools and kura by 2022.
From homelessness to hope
From people living rough on the streets, to people who walk our corridors of power – on a bright winter’s day in Ōtautahi, they came together to listen, learn and take action against homelessness.
Making mātauranga accessible to all
Sharing the mātauranga of the New Zealand wars and conflicts in the nineteenth century is the aim of a new project with Bridget Williams Books, funded as part of the Te Pūtake o te Riri programme.
Whānau-centred approaches to address family violence
Family violence disproportionately affects Māori, with Māori being more than twice as likely to experience it than other New Zealanders.
Kaingaroa Housing Community Development: whānau inspired for bright future
The small, isolated settlement of Kaingaroa sits on the volcanic plateau of the central North Island. It is surrounded by one of the largest planted forests in the Southern Hemisphere and is home to about 435 people.
Inaugural Māori Wardens Modernisation Working Group hui
Following on from the National Māori Wardens Conference in July, where a landmark vote took place to move towards increased autonomy, the inaugural Māori Wardens Modernisation Working Group held their first hui on Thursday 5 September in Wellington.
National Māori Wardens Conference a huge success
From Wallace Haumaha singing a rendition of ‘Te Rina’ to a surprise budget announcement and a landmark vote, there was something for everyone at this year’s successful national conference held at Tūrangawaewae Marae.
Award winning Māori leadership programme recognised through cadetships
Downer has been helping shape the landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand for over a century, building key infrastructure including roads, telecommunications, water, power and gas networks.
Learning on the job is the trick
The biggest Tūhoe civil contractor is helping his people to be the technician, to be the electrician, to be the engineer. Pera Te Amo (Tūhoe, Ngāti Porou) has only just come on board the Cadetship programme but we catch up to discuss the work that is bringing pride to him and his whānau.
Wai 262 - Te Pae Tawhiti
The role of the Crown and Māori in making decisions about taonga and mātauranga Māori. Preliminary proposals for Crown organisation.
Developing a Whole-of-Government Strategy for WAI 262
These documents relate to Cabinet decisions on a whole-of-Government work programme to address the issues raised in the WAI 262 claim.
Strong partnership grows Māori leaders
“The best outcomes, and the ones we’re most passionate about, are around whānau and community,” says Debbie Kirby, GM HR, Transport Services, Downer NZ.
Māori leadership programme proving to be more than successful
Fletcher Building is a global business made up of over 20,000 employees across 34 businesses and hundreds of brands operating in 40 countries, covering construction, manufacturing, and distribution industries. Introducing their successful pilot Māori leadership programme in 2015 has been key to the success of engaging and preparing their Māori workers to enter leadership roles.
Developing Māori leaders in an emerging market on their own whenua
New Zealand Manuka Group is a medium-sized Whakatāne-based primary industry business operating in partnership with Māori landowners in the Bay of Plenty to produce manuka oil straight from manuka trees being grown on Māori owned land.
Empowering others through mana and respect
Jonno Webster (Ngāpuhi) is an Assistant Contract Manager for Downer at their Taranaki hub. He received an invitation to participate in Te Ara Whanake, the Downer Māori Leadership Programme through one of his colleagues.
Setting standards for herself and others around her
Ongelle Fincham (Ngāti Kahungunu) is a Programmer for Downer based in Wellington. Ever since she saw the company’s promotional video about Te Ara Whanake, the Māori leadership programme, she was keen to go on it. When she was asked to attend, her only answer was “Yes!”
Learning more about yourself to help others
Driver/operator Darryl Takerei (Ngāti Raukawa) works for Downer in the Taranaki region. In 2015 he completed the Downer Māori leadership programme, Te Ara Whanake, and found that he learned more about himself than he expected.
Stitching whakapapa together through quilt-making in Otautahi
Whakapapa and quilt making is being combined to help transform and heal whānau.
Recently Te Puni Kōkiri supported Ngāti Porou artist Ron Te Kawa to run a whakapapa quilt workshop in Ōtautahi over two long and and very creative weekends at the Stitch-o-Mat Centre in New Brighton.