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If your 17 or older please read below
We have 2 spaces to fill on our term 2 Taiao program, doing a paper through te wanaka o awanuiarangi, Te pou hono ki taiao. We will be centering this mahi around the Ngāi Tuahuriri/Mahaanui takiwa with upto 4 hikoi/mahika kai trips off site each month and 1 maintenance/whenua caretaking day a week.
Te Pou Hono ki Taiao
A certificate in marae resource and environmental management
Empowering kaitiaki for the future. Grow environmental leadership for your marae.
Te Pou Hono ki Taiao is a marae-centred certificate programme of Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi designed to grow environmental knowledge and leadership within Māori communities. This course equips tauira with the skills to actively engage in te taiao (environmental) initiatives that uphold tikanga Māori and kaitiakitanga in their own kāinga or rohe.
Whether you're passionate about protecting your whenua, waterways, ngahere or ecosystems, this programme offers a culturally grounded pathway to environmental stewardship.
Why Study Te Pou Hono ki Taiao?
Community Impact
Build capacity and make a difference for your whānau, hapū, iwi, and community. Contribute to the environmental wellbeing of your marae.
Culturally Grounded Practical Learning
Maraebased learning model grounded in tikanga Māori. Learn skills that can be applied on your marae and in your community.
Self-Determined Localised Learning
Delivered by and for your own members. Learn from your own leaders, in your own spaces, at your pace focussing on places of significance to your marae or community.
Support your Marae
Protect and restore your local environment and support your marae’s sustainability goals.
What you’ll learn in Te Pou Hono ki Taiao:
Kaitiakitanga in relation to atua Māori and the impact of colonisation and legislation on te taiao.
Mana whenua – the significance of landmarks, protection protocols, and the interface between resource management, tikanga and kawa.
Customary uses of native flora and fauna, ecological impacts of climate change, and project planning for environmental solutions.
Māori connections to the ngahere and the uses of rongoā Māori.
Who should apply?
Te Pou Hono programmes are designed for collective learning by groups such as whānau, hapū, marae, iwi, kōhanga reo, kura and other Māori entities.
This programme is ideal for:
Whānau, hapū, and iwi members passionate about te taiao with a desire to uplift their marae and protect the environment
Marae-based leaders and kaitiaki
Community members wanting to lead environmental initiatives
Te Kaupapa o Te Pou Hono – Strategic Purpose
Te Pou Hono is a collective suite of marae-centred courses designed to support marae, whānau, hapū and iwi to revitalise and strengthen all aspects of Te Ao Māori through the context of their own unique local lenses.
Each Te Pou Hono programme has its own unique theme covering various aspects of marae-centred topics.
Te Pou Hono is intended for groups, where individuals study collectively, enabling marae to bring together their members from around the country to learn from their own collective knowledge held by whānau, hapū and iwi to ensure knowledge is transferred from one generation to the next.
IF YOU HAVE A PASSION FOR TE TAIAO GET IN TOUCH WHANAU. WE ARE LOOKING TO DO EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST MEETINGS THURSDAY 16TH AND FRIDAY 17TH APRIL TO START THE FOLLOWING WEEK.
TAIAO 😤🤙🏾
Yum tuna 💖💖💖😊😊😊😊
Graduation Day Rōpū Koura. Mauri Ora.
So proud of you Rus, Ru and your team
💪🏽🫡💙🔥
Graduation day just gets better and better awesome effort everyone very proud 👏
Toko Mark Talanoa I remember this song was infamous with one of our past cohorts. What cohort was it lol?
Noaia Te Whakapōtaetanga - graduation ceremony today to honour the most recent graduates of
Level 2 National Certificate in Building Construction and Allied Trade Skills apprenticeships.
Sorted Kāinga Ora financial education programme.
Awesome job by our MC for the day Mark Talanoa
Congratulations! Hoani didn’t even tell me he was graduating 🤣😂
MC forgot to print his korero 🫣. Great celebration today e te whānau Ngā mihi to all our graduates 💪🏽💙. Mauri Ora.
Ka rawe tauira mā! 👏🏽
Haka Tautoko to send off Whaea Renee Tuhikarama 💙🙌🏽.
Sincier wished he was there to tautoko you whaea Renee
I would have loved to have seen you in the stellar haka line up. How was your 1st week back Sincier?
Solidd kuzzys💯🔥
Ka nui te aroha, ka nui hoki te mihi ki a Whaea Renee Tuhikarama i tēnei wā e poroporoaki atu nei mātou ki a koe.
Ngā mihi nui mō tō tautoko, tō kaha, me tō aroha ki tō tātou kaupapa o Ruataniwha. He tino taonga ō mahi, ā, kua waiho he tohu nui ki roto i ō mātou ngākau. Ka tino ngaro koe i a mātou.
As we say goodbye for now, we acknowledge all that you have given to our Ruataniwha kaupapa. Your guidance, commitment, and aroha have made a lasting impact, and you will be deeply missed.
E mihi ana mātou ki a koe mō tō haerenga hou — kia kaha, kia māia, kia manawanui.
Sending you all our love and best wishes for what lies ahead.
Arohanui from your Noaia whānau 🙌🏽💙.