E Tu Wahine Pono Women stand in truth

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E Tu Wahine PonoWomen stand in truth
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Maori People

• Polynesian ancestors arrived between 700-1000
  years ago
• Second migration occurred in the 1940s-1970s
  from farms and towns to cities
• Maori now have large communities in Australia,
  Great Britain and USA.
• 10.9 of the population of New Zealand

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Treaty of Waitangi

• 1840-Founding document of New Zealand
• Between the British Crown and Maori sovereign
  nations.
• Tangata Whenua/ Tangata Tiriti
• 3 articles guarantee the rights of Maori over
  fisheries, forests and resources
• Crown right to purchase land, settlement and
  government.

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The Rights based argument

• The rights of self determination
• The right to equity of values
• The right to collective wellbeing
• The right to equal quality of information
• The right to policy based on evidence that is
  relevant to Maori.
• Source Eru Pomare Research Centre 2002
• Mana Whakamarama- Equal Explanatory Power..

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Educational Research

• 11 Maori women aged 35-55
• 10 left school before aged 15
• 5 currently working in gambling/AOD and studying
  toward a qualification
• 3 working part time
• 3 housewives
• 1 sickness benefit

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Risk factors for problem gambling

• Aged between 25-34
• Maori or Pacific ethnicity
• Lower educational attainment
• Employed and living alone
• SourceAnalysis of the 2002-3 New Zealand Health
  Survey, Ministry of Health 2006

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Maori Language

• Ko te reo te mauri o te mana Maori
• The language is the essence of Maori dignity (
  Ta Hemi Henare)
• Native Schools mode of instruction was English.
• Native speakers of Maori were strapped for
  speaking Maori at school.
• This affected Maori now aged 60

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Kaupapa Maori Theory

• Kaupapa Maori is the conceptualisation of Maori
  knowledge ( Tuakana Nepe)
• Kaupapa Maori is concerned with the struggle for
  autonomy over our own cultural wellbeing.
  (Graham Smith)

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Kaupapa Maori Movement

• Petition to Parliament mid 70s that Maori
  language be taught in schools.
• Total immersion Maori language nests for
  pre-schoolers began in early 80s
• Kura Kaupapa mid 80s
• Wharekura mid 90s
• Te Mana Get there with learning 2000

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First Nations People

• Residential Schools decimated Native communities
  ( Canada USA)
• Healing Our Spirits Worldwide movement 20 years
  old this year.
• Culture is Treatment
• (Roundlake Treatment Centre)

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Wahine Tupono Trust

• Programme developed in 2002
• Support group started in 2003
• Funding with Maori NGO
• Contract from Ministry of Health 2004
• Trust formed in August 2005
• Incorporated May 2006
• Funding now with another Mainstream NGO

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Goals of the Trust

• To promote and support the well being of Wahine
  Maori and their whanau
• To reduce the harm of problem gambling in Maori
  communities through education and awareness
  raising activities
• To lobby and advocate on behalf of Maori
  communities affected by problem gambling via
  media and community events
• To encourage the education and use of Te Reo
  Maori me nga tikanga.
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Challenges

• Autonomy from other service providers
• Funding criteria
• Defined as problem gambling follow up and support
  service (MOH)

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Solutions

• Independent evaluation
• Support from other groups as umbrella
  organisations
• Accessing funding grants for activities
• 3 year strategic plan
• We define what we do

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3 year strategic plan

• The Trust plans to build on the goals by
  continuation of the weekly support group and
  wellness retreats(wananga)
• Te Reo Me Nga Tikanga
• Ka pumau tonu matou ki te whakaako, whakahihiko
  nga akonga kia mahia te reo Maori, a, me te hiki
  nga tikanga Maori I nga wa katoa.

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Woman

• You are strength
• You have given birth to daytime visions
• And night-time dreams
• You are the keeper of a nation yet to be born
• Marcie Rendon (Ashinabe)

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Trustees

• Paula Johnstone
• Dr. Lorna Dyall
• Laurie Morrison (Doctoral candidate )
• Kataraina Tuhaka
• Executive
• Ruth Herd
• Di Richards

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Contact

• Ruth Herd ( chairperson)
• ruth_herd_at_clear.net.nz
• r.herd_at_auckland.ac.nz
• Kotahi ano te kaupapa, ko te oranga o te iwi
• There is one foundation, the wellbeing of the
  people