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Ka mua, ka muri – in order to move forward we must look back into our past.

Losing both her father and her sister to Huntington’s Disease more than twenty years ago had a profound effect on Joan Carew.
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2020 Whanau Ora Symposium

2021 WHĀNAU ORA ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM     Thanks to Six60 for the use of their song ‘kia mau ki tō Ūkaipō, don’t forget your roots”.   Register Now   ōTEPOTI DUNEDIN 8 – 10 April   VENUE: Dunedin Centre Glenroy…

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Te Puna Waimarie

  Te Puna Waimarie, Te Puna Hauaitu, Te Puna Karikari –  The pools of frozen water; The pools of bounty; The pools dug by the hand of man There is a particular whakataukī of Ngai Tahu which inspired us when…

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Symposium

    Te Kīwai Te Kīwai is a new fund developed in partnership between Te Pūtahitanga o Te Waipounamu and Sport New Zealand Ihi Aotearoa, designed to support Māori wellbeing through play, active recreation and sport. WAVE FUNDING Our Wave funding…

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Building your own whare

  A simple pull-down banner can say a lot.   So it was that at the education symposium, Kā au Kahuraki, we learnt about the vision for self-determination being signed up to by the Ministry of Education, the New Zealand…

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Starry Heavens Above

  “Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.  Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason…

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#Choosing To Challenge

  #ChoosetoChallenge “Each of us is called upon to take a stand. So in these days ahead, as we examine ourselves and each other, our works, our fears, our differences, our sisterhood and survivals, I urge you to tackle what…

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Living Juicy – an answer to kutu for our tamariki

Joe Coote spent years watching his wife, Lawata trying to get rid of the head lice that kept infesting their children’s thick, wavy hair. He decided there had to be a better way – a way of getting rid of…

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The State of Perturbation

  He Kotuku kai – whakaata When I attended Teachers’ College in the 80s, a group of us grabbed a couple of tents and headed for Okarito.  We’d all been reading The Bone People and so it was a hikoi…

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TupuToa : Walking in the light of our tupuna

  TUPU Ka tupu te moko taro me aravei i te vai ora.Young taro shoots will grow if they meet lifegiving water.    Tupu is about flourishing, thriving and growing into who you were meant to be given the best conditions. Metaphorically, tupu also…

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