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​TŪHONOTIA NGĀ ROUROU KIA TOITŪ TE TAIAO - TE PĀ ORANGA

Episode 3 - Te Pā Oranga with Zack Makoare

​Welcome to Episode 3 of "Tūhonotia ngā rourou kia toitū te taiao," our riveting series delving into the essence of Te Ao Māori. In this installment, we have the privilege of introducing Zack Makoare and his whānau, as they embark on a journey of establishing their papa aianga - Te Pā Oranga.

Tūhonotia ngā rourou kia toitū te taiao – Revitalising Sustainable Knowledge for the Well-being of Our Environment and Whānau.

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July 2023

Whenua Tipuna-A place to call homE
Hardship & Hope: How reclaiming ancestral land helps whānau struggling with housing crisiS​

"Loss of land is at the root of Māori poverty, health, education and imprisonment data. But fresh efforts are enabling whānau to build homes, security and hope on shared ancestral land."

The papakāinga is profiled in The Listener in 29 July 2023, in an article by Rebecca Mackie, with photographs by Stephen Robinson.

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May 2023

13th International Conference on the Constructed Environment, University of Hawaii, Manoa, 17-18 May 2023

Matariki Makoare and Nikita Mitchell travel with us to Hawaii to talk about Pukeaute as part of our presentation about Poipoia the Kākano, Kia Puāwai.

Bev, Matariki, Maia and Nikita

Nikita talks with the Conference keynote speaker over dinner

Maia and Matariki - he tino ataahua korua

Lessons learned about Papakāinga development

Zack shares some of the biggest learnings they’d pass on to others who are thinking about papakāinga development:

1. ​Get whānau agreement that you can partition a block of land off for a papakāinga. As best you can, inform all whānau who might want to live there.
2. Draw a decent picture of what it can look like. Paint the picture firstly in people’s hearts, not so much their mind, which can change quite quickly. It’s not what I say but how people feel.
3. Know what you are getting into and do your research well before you get into it. Do your homework and make sure you dot your i’s and cross your t’s well.
4. The dots can move either way, and things can change so you need to be able to adapt quickly. Be equipped and able to have robust whānau-hapū discussions that leave your relationships intact.
5. Find out how to be a servant before you become a leader. Become a servant leader and things will come more easily because you have a servant mentality.

2022

Home at last:
First residents of new papakāinga development move in

Article by Gianina Schwanecke in Stuff, 20 April 2022

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Papakāinga response to call from home
Associate Minister for Māori Housing says the Trust's project brings life to the Government's Whai Kāinga Whai Oranga programme​

Waatea News report, 8 April 2022

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Papakāinga tour march 2022

Zack gives Tepora a tour of how the papakāinga build is progressing.

In addition to the update on the three houses that were almost completed on the papakāinga, Zack shared about the meaning of the papakāinga and what the Trust was creating:

• The dream of bringing all our land together began 35 years ago. I didn’t start this; it was my other whānau that started it. However, there wasn’t a lot of transparency and frustration came through. I went to court with them. It’s not good policy to make whānau your enemy – keep your whānau close to you. Whānau realised that this was going to happen and not everybody got on board, but some people started turning up consistently and I started working with them – doing our trees and other work on the whenua.
• We’re planning for 10 homes and four in each home, so that’s 40 people. And on the other side of the road there’s going to be another 20 houses and probably another 120 people, plus we’ve got another two sites down the road that we are planning to build homes on. We also have plans for smaller duplex homes on this papakāinga so that as we age we can transition from the big houses to those. The whānau will rent off the Trust. We would prefer that they buy the houses outright but that’s unaffordable.
• We're creating a village as stronghold and thinking about how we can create an economic base to sustain the village ourselves. It’s easy to build housing but now that we are here, we must figure out how we’re going to work together. We are reclaiming our ahi kaa but in doing so we need to ask ourselves what this looks like for Kahungunu – what does it really mean for us?
• The values that underpin the tikanga for living on their whenua are kaitiakitanga, manaakitanga, aroha and whānau. We have built a big moveable table that will go between houses – it’s a metaphor for manaakitanga, aroha and whanaungatanga. Rather than fences, we will put the table between our houses – and so nurture opportunities to come together to have kai, a cup of tea and a gossip.

One news article
Largest investment ever into Māori housing appears to be on track

Report by Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, Māori Affairs Correspondent, 8 April 2022

"Matariki Makoare had a simple dream to give her babies a comfortable home.

"There were 18 of us living in our place, in a three bedroom home and we've got three children. I just recently had a baby, he's seven weeks this week," she said.

That dream is now a reality, with three new rental properties in a 10 home papakāinga development in Hastings now complete.

"We've been waiting for this moment for such a long time and it was just like an amazing feeling, so much stress lifted off our shoulders," she said."

Watch and read here

January 2022

BIG CAMP

Our 2022 Taitimu Trust Big Camp was held at PukeAute Papakāinga site Te Hauke. Over 55 tamariki/rangatahi, and 30 adults attended, spending time building a better tomorrow! We practiced water safety, spent time at waipukurau, shared stories, sung waiata, participated in waka ama, performed skits and more. This wānanga was about building confident, connected and resilient whānau. 

November 23 2021
Planting on the whenua

​October 15 2021

better hauora

In Te Ao Māori, a holistic view of health and wellbeing, known as hauora is paramount. It comprises taha tinana (physical well-being), taha hinengaro (mental and emotional well-being), taha whānau (social well-being), and taha wairua (spiritual well-being).

It starts with whānau, hapū then Iwi.
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​- Ta Mason Durie

October 11 2021
beautiful early morning at te hauke

October 6 2021
Sustainable living during Covid-19

Wānanga with Wind Tunnel House. 

​September 27 2021

Media coverage of the papakāinga builds. Zack and the Trust are very skilled at media engagement and ensuring advocacy for Māori housing and mental wellbeing. So dialogue about Māori housing and the role of the whare wānanga within the context of the papakāinga continues.

On 27 September 2021 Radio New Zealand and the New Zealand Herald publish an article about the papakāinga. As Zack is quoted as saying, "We're going to have to start living with our younger people and they're going to have to live with us older pakeke, it's at transformational stages where we all have to get a bit humble."

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​The Trust has also received additional funding from Te Puni Kōkiri for more Mahue Pera housing.

APRIL 3 2021
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Te PĀ Oranga

A Pukeaute model of Wellbeing, Te Pā Oranga, is proposed as an innovation of wellbeing for whānau and community.

We are working with our partners to build a new wellness centre that will provide a community-led, kaupapa Māori support for tamariki and rangatahi. Te Pā Oranga will be built on papakāinga land in Te Hauke

Read Stuff article

MAHUE PERA AHU WHENUA TRUST

July 2020
Mahue Pera whānau are taking an intergenerational approach to sharing their Papakāinga story. The rangatahi perspective that is being shared is from a 29- and 30-year married couple with baby on the way. The key aspect they report from the start of their research journey is learning; learning about the process of purchasing land, the funding process, and about whānau dynamics of the dream now turned into reality.  It has been the dream of the dad of one of the rangatahi to have a Papakāinga and for whānau to come and live back on their whenua and for the rangatahi to be part of the now reality has given them both purpose

October 2020
​The whenua has been given a name, Pukeaute, from a kaumātua. There have been various working bees which have included tree planting and maintenance and tar sealing of the road. The layout of the Papakāinga has clearly identified where the wellbeing centre and amphitheater will be. 
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A young couple interviewed about the Papakāinga have shared how lucky they feel to be given the opportunity to build on their ancestral land and be surrounded by whānau and hapū. They can also spend their money on their house and not worry about the cost of infrastructure as it has been covered by the Papakāinga funding.​​

January 2021
Our 30-year moemoeā​, despite all the challenges in that journey, has always been to have affordable housing for whānau to live on but also an opportunity to live and work on the land, “working as one, eating as one.” Now with Pukeaute we are tracking well; the road is finished, power has gone in and water gone down. We continue with our firewood and tree planting wānanga as a vehicle to encourage whānau to work together, work along-side rangatahi and to become role models for our rangatahi and tamariki. We have always held the belief that Pukeaute would be more than just a Papakāinga but will include a wellbeing centre and whatever that looks and feels like for us as a whānau.  Now that looks like a container and can only evolve. Oranga should not be a hospital but a more inclusive and innovative approach.

Successful Funding proposal to Te Puni Kōkiri