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AHI KÄ
WHÄNAU ORA IN ACTION AT RÄTANA
Two of our newly appointed Whänau
Ora champions, Piri Rurawhe and
Brendan Pongia, were able to see
whänau ora in action when they visited
Rätana Pä in March.
Piri Rurawhe (far right) and Brendan Pongia (seated, 4th from right).
TE PUNI KÖ KIRI | KÖ KIRI | NGAHURU / AUTUMN 2012
The kaumätua and nannies from the tiny rural settlement had just
set up their own foodbank for the families of locked out Affco
workers. Thirty-six families in Rätana are without an income and
food is short so the elders of Rätana took action, taking donations
and often putting in money and kai from their own cupboards
to help out.
The community has been behind this initiative and the local school
has also put together fruit and vegetable parcels. Meanwhile up the
road in Whanganui, help is there for more than two hundred other
families locked out in ongoing industrial action. A foodbank centre
has been established thanks to the local Mäori Wardens providing
space at their headquarters in Ingestre Street.