Leading from the front issuu

WHAT DO OUR YOUNG
PEOPLE WANT?
• More basketball hoops
• Full sized basketball court
• A clean neighbourhood
• Stop littering and start recycling around the community
• Upgrade our parks
• Where’s our splash pad?
• Our skate strip leads out onto a main road
• Adding new play equipment each year
• A mini van and a community bus, shared between
the local kura, sports club, Church, Kohanga reo,
childcare centres and community events
A teacher aide at our Maraenui kura is taking out
young people as a class and the cost to hire a bus is
$1500 at least. This year our kura didn’t book the bus for
our kapa haka festival held at Te kura Kaupapa ki Heretaunga.
We were lucky that we have a good network
with supportive Kura in our area. Aroha mai, Aroha tu.
Many of our young people from Maraenui are elite athletes,
nurtured by not only school involvement in sports
but also Maraenui Rugby and Sports Association, producing
Hawke’s Bay representatives in rugby, girls rugby,
girls rugby league, touch rugby, and of course basketball.
• Our young people need transport! And, consistent
committed qualified driver/carers to get them to their
training and games
• Love kapa haka
• Love being Māori
• Love sports
• Love to dance
TOURISM
OUR
YOUNG
PEOPLE
• Love to have fun
• Love to learn
• Love to belong
• Love to be loved
We are keen for tourism employment opportunities for
our young people. Kapa Haka and Hangi to perform and
host/cater and feed visitors from overseas ships. Making
kete by our young people for our young people. To include
our pakeke and family members that are passionate
about kapa haka and love to serve others. This will
give our young people the chance to productively represent
themselves, their family, their community, their city
and their iwi.
WE NEED TO CLEAN OUR
GREENBELT & WATERWAYS
RECREATION AND EDUCATION
YOUTH CENTRE
The green belt could be a beautiful pathway for our community
to walk or run around and admire, but alas that
is not the beauty of it. It’s polluted, paru, and has rubbish
amongst the overgrown native plants and bushes.
Still in the paru waters the ducks paddle around looking
strangely small and sick.
Murals, art, and Māori art would be ideal along the
corrugated iron fences, brightening up our walkways and
our community.
• If our walkways and waterways were clean, cared for
and maintained maybe we could get those exercise
stations, similar to the ones by the Aquarium and
along Marine Parade
• CCTV cameras would make our community feel safe.
Our young people want to be actively involved with the
community and school gardens/mara-kai and being educated
on planting, with hands-on learning and giving
back to the community
• Our young people need a place to go to
• Somewhere safe
• Somewhere fun
• Somewhere where we are not judged
• Somewhere without alcohol, drugs or gang influence
• Somewhere that is ours and for us
We need to have a recreation and educational centre like
William Colenso College and Flaxmere’s Flax Rock, with
indoor basketball courts, darts and a classroom space.
A music studio — where young people can produce their
own music. A dance studio, a stage for performers, musicians
and kapa haka. A place where the young people
can have dance parties and formal events and be able
to cater for educational workshops and wānanga. A well
resourced centre, managed and staffed by people who
are passionate about young people and what they are
teaching and sharing, to become the best individuals
they can be in today’s society.
Napier Pilot City Trust – for a kinder, fairer city 145