Building engagement and empowerment
Mana Wāhine Week 2025 lit up Tāmaki from 28th September to 3rd October 2025, bringing together hundreds of wāhine for six days of wānanga, creativity, movement, healing, and connection. We were so excited to reignite the flame of our previous Mana Wāhine kaupapa, and what started as an idea quickly became a powerful reminder of …
Continue reading "A Celebration of Strength, Storytelling, and Sisterhood"
We ushered December in with the fourth gathering for our Climate Action Manava and discussed our relationship with Māori and our fatongia - our duties and obligations to support and protect our cousins here in Aotearoa. 2023 was a year of sharing and learning from each other and this project has allowed us to build …
Continue reading "Pacific People Climate Action Project – Final Report"
Over the last three months, we’ve teamed up with Pacific Vision Aotearoa to help Māori and Pasifika communities in Tāmaki Makaurau get stronger against climate change. This partnership led to the creation of our ‘Climate Manava,’ a monthly gathering of community leaders rooted in culture to explore strategies for community empowerment in climate action. Inspired …
As we move from the Aōtearoa Kai Journey project to our new Kai Sovereignty project we are excited to be able to provide more gardens and chickens to whānau in need in the local community. Together, partnering with Whenua Warrior, who supply the garden beds and soil, along with The Patchwork Gardens, with hands on …
It all started with The Kai Collective Project which was a collective of community groups and leaders that came together to respond to the COVID-19 crisis, creating a Food Hub that provided local groups and community leaders with food that they then distributed directly to whānau in need in our community. From here we learned …
Working alongside Ākina and The Impact Initiative, Tara Moala and Philippa Holmes presented as part of the Social Enterprise World Forum Digital, on our experience of working within a Māori and Pasifika Collective and leaning on our indigenous values to create and grow an innovative response to the COVID10 lockdowns of 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HvVqOFu8lg&feature=youtu.be
One of our practitioners views of a local community dinner that The HEART Movement facilitates every Friday night.
Supporting the DOC Partnerships team in Auckland to develop a strong understanding of codesign, working towards a collective of South Auckland Marae and Government agencies creating together.
Supporting the HEART Parenting Coordinator to research, document, develop and coordinate a movement around healthy parenting in Tāmaki
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