Three Matauranga Whanui kaimahi deliver this programme to taitamariki in the Mid-North and Whangarei areas. KC Maaka (Kawakawa) delivers Ki o Rahi in Schools Tom Tauranga (Kawakawa) challenges at-risk students with physical activity opportunities and also works with primary school age tamariki. Kauangarua Kingi (Whangarei ) is developing a new Hikoi Programme for Tertiary Trainees in Whangarei Their [...]
Te Mirumiru At the end of July Tui and Kotare Ruma at Te Mirumiru changed to a kaupapa of full immersion in te reo Maori. Parents have had the choice of moving their tamariki into these ruma and the transi-tion is taking place in 3 stages. The first group of tamariki have transitioned well although [...]
Kawakawa It’s been 6 weeks since Ngati Hine Health Trust held a small blessing service to open their Matairiri Community Studio in Kawakawa. And its been busy busy ever since says Station Manager Helen Locke. The site in the Pokapu Centre is ideal, she says, there’s lots of foot traffic, people keep calling in and [...]
Naumai haere mai to the new kaimahi who were welcomed at the staff powhiri on 14 May 2018. Back Row: Cameron West, Te Hiwi Preston, Haami Tohu, KC Maaka, COE Geoff Milner, Aoranga Stokes and Brent McMahon Front Row: Drs Graeme & Carol Smiley, Kuini Daniels, Shaness Parkinson, Kuia Isabelle Cherrington, Pauline Paraha and Naini Heremaia-Black. [...]
NHFM will be opening their new Kawakawa studio on July 2nd. A small blessing and opening ceremony is planned for the occasion at Te Pokapu Centre in Wynyard St. Kawakawa. Following the opening NHFM will broadcast live from the studio from 10am to 2pm every weekday with Amadonna Jakeman at the helm. Well known in the [...]
Taking Our Services to the Community “If it’s difficult for whanau to come to us, we need to go to them” says Dr Tamara Birchall who has recently been appointed to the Hauora Whanui team and who has been coordinating a bigger and better outreach service to remote rural communities. This service has been operating [...]
Kawakawa Office May 21—June 1 2018. It’s mammogram time again for wahine in Te Taitokerau between 45 and 69 and the Mobile Screening Unit is due to park up in front of Hineamaru Office for 2 weeks in May. Part of our Breast Screening Support Contract is to liaise between the mobile unit and the [...]
Nga tane o Ngati Hine Health Trust at a hui at Kawakawa Fire Station in March Outnumbered by wahine 3-1 and spread thinly throughout the organisation, our tane are forever in the minority. So it made sense to call a hui in March for tane to get together and discuss their role within Ngati Hine [...]
Thanks to the encouragement of our CFO, this year Ngāti Hine Health Trust had a presence at Relay for Life, the Northland Cancer Society’s annual fundraiser. We fielded a team of 17 made up of kaimahi from both offices plus 2 board members and a husband. Thanks to support from our whānau and colleagues we [...]
