NGĀTI HINE HEALTH TRUST

He Tātai Whakapapa, He Rāngai Oranga

Our vision: To thrive as Ngāti Hine, grounded in whakapapa, led by kaupapa, and flourishing across generations. We envision a future where identity, whānau wellbeing, economic sovereignty, and environmental restoration are interwoven, ensuring our people stand tall in te ao as Tangata Whenua and Tangata Tiriti.

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HISTORY

The Ngāti Hine Health Trust has its origins in the Motatau Mārae Komiti which, in 1987, formed a health sub-committee to address health needs of the Motatau community.

From 1990 to 1992 the Marae Komiti obtained funding from the Health Research Council to train Kaiāwhina and carry out a Ngāti Hine household health status survey.

A second allocation of funding from Te Hotu Manawa Māori was secured to carry out a Rheumatic Fever prevention project.

Together the trained Kaiāwhina, the household survey and the Rheumatic Fever project provided the basis of submissions to the Regional Health Authority to establish Hauora Ngāti Hine as it was then, as a contracted service provider.

It was April 28th 1992 when the Ngāti Hine Health Trust was officially formed.

A special relationship with the Regional Health Authority, evidenced by a Treaty-based Memorandum of Understanding was signed in 1994, as a precursor to the Trust’s entry into service delivery. The Trust’s first service contract was for provision of Mobile Community Nursing Services.

Having established itself in the delivery of a comprehensive range of mobile nursing, residential and community health services, and through the recognition of the underlying social determinants of health, over the following 33 years the Trust has expanded to encompass social, disability, education, housing, corrections, justice and media services.

The designs of the Ngāti Hine Health Trust tohu represent the cycle of life.

Hinga atu he tētēkura ara mai a he tētēkura: The older generation, the current generation and the new generation.

Green: symbolises the land and all it’s vegetation from which we derive our sustenance, all of which the medicines we use to heal, the materials we use to clothe ourselves, the buildings we use to live and work in are all derived from the land. It is also significant as the colour of mourning, reminiscent of our many whānaunga who have passed on.

Red: Over the green, symbolises blood – the blood shed by our ancestors over our land to protect it. The same blood that is the life essence of our bodies and the vitality of our hapū.