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⚒️ Wiki Rima | Waihanga ⚒️
Halfway through the term and the mahi keeps rolling on strong 💪🏽
✅ Retaining Wall Project
🐓 Chicken Coop Build
⚒️ Site Maintenance
📖 Theory Sessions
He rawe te kite i te tipu, te mahi tahi me te ngākau nui o ngā tauira ia wiki 💯
We are now taking Expressions of Interest for our Term 3 cohort. Limited spaces available nō reira, if you’re keen to jump on the kaupapa and build your skills, register below 👇🏽.
Apply Here - noaia.selma.app/en/form/apply/16
Mauri Ora ✨
Great to see my boy there today ❤️
On Friday, in collaboration with Noaia, Road II Redemption, and Kai Connoisseurs, we held a working bee at Te Waka-a-Rangi cutting firewood and preparing spaces for calves and chickens ahead of spring. 🌱🔥🐄🐓
This was a beautiful collaboration of kaupapa, creating meaningful opportunities for tauira to gain valuable hands-on work experience while contributing back to the whenua and community.
A huge mihi to our Community Job Coaching rangatahi who stepped into Tuakana roles, mentoring and supporting Noaia tauira throughout the day. Your leadership, patience, and mana made a real impact. 💛
We’re also deeply grateful to the amazing team at Kai Connoisseurs for nourishing our tinana with beautiful kai, while also helping coordinate the day alongside Noaia and Road II Redemption.
To our MVPs... thank you for your hard mahi and dedication. It was a privilege to acknowledge your contribution with a small koha voucher in appreciation of the energy and commitment you brought to the kaupapa.
Ngā mihi nui to everyone involved in making the day such a success. This is what collaboration, whakawhanaungatanga, and collective growth looks like. ✨
Crew worked hard Kai was 🔥. More of these 💪🏽🫡
Ruataniwha Staffing pānui – We are pleased to announce that Ashely Rafferty has joined the Noia team in the role of Kaiārahi Ruataniwha, to lead our hands on, whenua based Ruataniwha programme, for Rangatahi who have disengaged from mainstream schooling. Ashely will support the Noia vision of ensuring young people are engaged in practical learning across farming, horticulture, and environmental contexts. Ashley is a mother, an experienced primary school teacher and a Registered Social Worker. She comes from a professional background across both education and kaupapa Māori social services. She holds two degrees, a Bachelor of Teaching and Learning (Primary) and a Master of Social Work. Ashley’s practice is grounded in whanaungatanga and supporting positive outcomes for rangatahi and their whānau. Ashely is passionate about fostering a supportive environment where all learners feel safe, understood, and able to thrive. Nau mai, haere mai Ashely!!
💪🏽 Great to have you on board Ashley 🙌🏽.
🔨⚒️ Waihanga – Wiki Rua, Toru & Whā ⚒️🔨
Our tauira have been putting in the mahi and getting stuck in on some awesome hands on projects 💪🏽🔥
✅ Retaining Wall Project
📏 Setting out profiles
🕳️ Digging post holes
🪵 Suspending posts
🧱 Concreting
🔧 Installing rails
✅ Garden Furniture Project #1
🪑 Bench seat completed ☑️
Massive mihi to our building tauira for the hard work, teamwork, and commitment they continue to show every week 👏🏽💯
Building skills. Building confidence. Building futures 🏗️🛠️
Mauri Ora ✨
The Waihanga tauira headed to the NZMA Open Day this week and were treated to a VIP tour of the facilities, including the NZIS space.
It was awesome to see the range of opportunities available on such a great campus, backed by a strong team of kaimahi 💪🏽
Big shout out to NZMA and NZIS for hosting us mauri ora 👍🏽.