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Finish the Whare Wananga

A new Whare Wananga is being built at Aurere in Doubtless Bay on land donated by Hekenukumai Ngaiwi Puhipi OMNZ MBE as a Māori Reserve. It will be the new home for the national centre for training in traditional navigation led by Hekenukumai, the only person in the South Pacific qualified to award traditional navigator status. Tarai Waka initially raised 70% of the cost of the building through generous donations from the ASB Community Trust and New Zealand Lottery Grants Board, while Te Puni Kōkiri supported the project management and consenting. Since March our fund-raising drive has raised another $130,000 leaving $170,000 to raise to complete the building.

Donate today and help us finish the whare and fit it out.

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Thanks for the donations to John Panoho, Duncan Morrison, Jeff Evans, Chrissie Locke, Revell Butler, Wendy L Jackson, Clare Hill, Ana Goncalves, Lawrence Pixley, Rachel Sheinbein, Candace Ingram, Claudia Bruellhardt, Sally Kelly, Tim Gorton, Tom Macfarlane, David and Amokura Panoho, Corinna Jaeger, Simone Durrer-Merkle, Te Ata Murupaenga, Charles S Ryan, Andy Reisinger, Kelly Minhinnick, Rick Carlyon, David Maxwell, Huia Marshall, Michael and Gina Harding, and John Doorbar.

A special thanks to the He Puna Marama Trust of Whangarei who bought the waka tete now named “Whakaruru Te Hau”