Healthier Lives has announced they will fund the maintenance of the OL@-OR@ programme (website and smartphone app) for a further 3 years. This is great news and means OL@-OR@ will be available for use by our Māori and Pasifika communities at least until late 2023....
A refreshed edition of the popular te reo Māori health resource, Toi Te Kupu, will make using and learning Māori easy, relevant and fun for whanau in the context of their everyday lives. Toi Tangata and the New Zealand Heart Foundation released Toi te Kupu, the...
I te tīmatanga ō Hereturikōkā i whakahaere tētahi wānanga He Pī Ka Rere (HPKR) i te taha o ētahi Kōhanga Reo o te Waiariki. Ko ngā kaimahi, whānau, tamariki hoki o Te Purapura o Ngāti Awa ki Rangitaiki me Kawerau (ngā Kōhanga Reo e waru)...
Kai sustains our tinana and nurtures our wairua. It enables us to demonstrate and express our aroha and our manaakitanga. Maintaining a healthy diet from hapūtanga to kaumātuatanga helps us maintain our whakapapa and ngā uri whakaheke. We know the way we access, prepare, and eat...
Ko te tuhi i te reo Māori anake te whainga o tēnei tuhinga hautaka. He uaua tonu te whainga nei ki au. Whā wiki pea ka noho au i te whakaaro ka pēhea ai tēnei tuhinga, kia whaia te kaupapa o te Mahuru Māori me...
Over the 2019/2020 summer, I was privileged to have a University of Auckland partnered internship with Toi Tangata and the Growing the Puna programme. I was really excited to be able to experience how Te Ao Māori is implemented within the health workforce. As a...
Covid 19 has impacted on whānau wellbeing at many levels. As well as employment and income, a further concern has been food security. The evidence is widely known that whānau Māori have been over-represented amongst those identified as food insecure over the years. However, for other...
Hauhake tū, ka tō Matariki The harvest ends when Matariki sets The Matariki constellation has moved under the horizon, signalling the end of harvest as winter sets in. A time to come together, to reflect, to wānanga, to learn and most of all, to be grateful. And...
Achieving that small activity that our tamariki ask for us to do with them (or vice versa!) deserves a big congratulations Mātua mā. The times I have tried to teach end up being battles of who is the boss of what job, and who is running...
Alert level three has seen takeaways reopen to allow for contactless purchases, but one Māori health advocate is urging whānau to keep takeaways as a treat and not a regular kai option. Read the media release here. Video credit: Te Karere TVNZ ...