The Matipo Community Development Charitable Trust garden and education centre has won the Supreme Award at the Trustpower National Community Awards.

The gardens were established in 2013 in a formerly derelict part of Whanganui by the late Black Power Leader Craig Rippon. Since then Housing New Zealand has provided a renovated house which acts as an education hub and over 50 people have taken part in education. They started with literacy classes, and moved on to Horticulture as well as construction apprenticeships.

E te pou kuia, kei te tangi te ngākau i tōu wehenga.
Haere atu rā koe ki te taha wairua, e kore e hōki mai.
E rārau koe ki tō moenga roa ī rūnga anō i te aroha.
E kore tātou e warewaretia i a koe.

Whaea June Jackson - wife of the late Sam Jackson, for many years ACE Aotearoa Kaumatua, and father of our current Kaumatua and Board member, Peter Jackson - has died.

By Ruby Roache
Ko te pae tawhiti kimihia kia mau,
Ko te pae tata whakamaua kia tina.
As you seek the distant horizons,
Hold fast to that which you treasure.

Nestled in the small rural town of Ōpōtiki our dream (moemoea) first came to fruition in 2005: a moemoea that acknowledged mana wahine and valued their role in society as te whare tangata, and key contributors to the lives of their families, children and community. A moemoea to inspire, and restore the wairua of women.

In 2011 Lily and her siblings brought their ageing mother, Ngairima Crawford, back home to Tolaga Bay.

When she was a child Ngairima’s own mother had died of TB and Ngairima was sent to an orphanage Heni Materoa before being looked after by whānau. Then, as a young woman she had run away to Wellington, married a German seaman who jumped ship, had six children, and brought them up in Christchurch on her own.

By Rawinia Tiari Olsen Kingi
Huiterangiora Digitech is a digital community focused on indigenous education and economic development based in Ūawa, Tolaga Bay on the East Coast. We are a group started by four whānau who are harnessing the power of the digital world to build sustainable opportunities and create a ladder to grow and support others. We aspire to being the creators of digital applications, rather than just being the users.

Our objectives are to: