The He Pī Ka Rere team has been busy over the month of August in training with Kohanga Reo and Early Childhood Centres (ECE) throughout the Bay of Plenty. They held a two hour HPKR annual refresher session with 30 kaimahi from six different Kōhanga Reo...
Toi Tangata is advocating for te reo Māori funding to upskill the Māori health workforce and bridge inequities. As a Māori health agency, we recognise the demand for mātauranga and kaupapa Māori based services is currently outweighing the confidence and capability of some kaimahi Māori...
Waka Ama champ, Pete Cowan (Ngati Poporo, Ngati Kahungunu), shares his haerenga to the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, reflecting on his grounding in te ao Māori. Tēnā tātou katoa, ko Peter Cowan tōku ingoa. This piece is a reflection of my journey to the International...
Toi Tangata Kai Maori Kai Ora lead, Haylee Koroi, reflects on the winter that has gone and the learnings that the season has brought us. We are in the first phase of summer at the moment here in Hokianga, hei tā Rereata Makiha ko Matiti Hana....
Thursday 29 September 2022For immediate release Toi Tangata is advocating for te reo Māori funding to upskill the Māori health workforce and bridge inequities. The national Māori health agency recognises the demand for mātauranga and kaupapa Māori based services is currently outweighing the confidence and capability...
Sport New Zealand has just announced that He Oranga Poutama, a long-standing physical activity programme that focuses on outcomes for Māori, has been expanded into four new regions with Government investment almost doubled to increase its reach. Managed by a combination of hapū, iwi, hauora and...
Pipiri saw the birth of the first ever reo Māori CrossFit-style competition, Mātātoa, combining two passions of its creators; te reo Māori and physical activity. The brainchild of the Kapa-Kingi triplets Heemi, Tipene, and Eru, the competition saw over 160 athletes from all over the...
He Pī Ka Rere is proving to be a compelling change agent for learning about Te Ao Māori kaupapa at Waverley Park School in Waihōpai, as Darrio and Nikki Penetito-Hemara recently experienced. In the lead up to the rising of Matariki, tamariki and kaiako from Waverley...
Tākaro Māori and culturally-empowered play allows tamariki to have fun and connect while developing self-regulation skills, resilience and mauri ora. Mokopuna Korikori, a kaupapa developed in partnership between Toi Tangata and ACC has been exploring what this can look like. Working alongside six whānau in the...