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Posted on November 21, 2025January 25, 2026

A Celebration of Strength, Storytelling, and Sisterhood

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 …

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What’s this blog about?

The Rākau Tautoko blog is a record of the different activities that our practitioners have been involved in since our launch at the beginning of 2017.

It also shows the activities that Tara has been involved in and led since she joined the community of Tāmaki in 2005.

The work is varied, but is connected in that it is focused on working alongside community members and building empowering initiatives.

Categories

  • Co-Design Creation
  • Community Development
  • Community Empowerment
  • Community Engagement
  • Community Research
  • Community-Led
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  • Cross cultural engagement
  • Facilitation and Training
  • Kai Sovereignty
  • Love Food Hate Waste
  • Maungakiekie Focus
  • Professional development
  • Project Development and Management
  • Social Change
  • Social Enterprise
  • South Auckland Focus
  • Stories from the Front Line
  • Tāmaki Focus
  • Waste Based Work
  • Youth-led Initiative

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  • Ashley Gordon
  • Auckland Council
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  • Candace Weir
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  • chickens
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  • collaboration
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  • connection
  • Dickie Humphries
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  • indigenous led
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  • sharing knowledge
  • Simone Joe
  • Simon Li
  • Support
  • Tamaki WRAP
  • Tara Moala
  • The HEART Movement
  • The Patchwork Gardens
  • Theresa Holmes
  • Tricia Joe
  • Trish Atasani
  • Tyrone Tangata-Makiri
  • Urban Gardening
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  • whakawhanaungatanga
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