Te Orokohanga | The Beginnings
Women are the storytellers, the singers, the leaders, the dreamers, and the dream makers of our whānau and our communities. With this in mind, He Whare Wahine is proactively wahine Māori in focus, driven by a vision of celebration and acknowledgement of wahine Māori as playing a pivotal role in the life of whānau, hapū and iwi.
The goal of HWW is to bring about positive changes in the lives of our women, children and whānau through re-connecting them with their cultural identity, leading to positive changes in their daily lifestyle.
We seek to implement leadership and training initiatives that strengthen and re-ignite the power of wahine that emerged at Kurawaka, and to bring about positive changes in lifestyles, relationships, identity and general health and wellbeing.
Ngā Pou o Te Whare | Purpose
There are four significant philosophies (mātāpono) that underpin the focus of He Whare Wahine:
- The emphatic advancement of wahine Māori in hapū, iwi, contemporary communities as valid representatives and voices of intergenerational trauma
- the re-establishment of the powerbase wahine Māori must have to engage in all aspects of her life, from the ‘kitchen table’ to the ‘caucus table.’
- the practical application of tikanga to all life domains which enable wahine Māori to move from personal disadvantage to personal equality. A leader in our homes, schools, marae, communities, councils and government.
Mō mātau rā | About us
He Whare Wahine team members work collaboratively across all the programmes that are on offer. The programmes we currently deliver are under the collective umbrella of ‘He Kura te Tangata’: