Taiki Kennedy - the teacher, the nurse, the nanny, the pāpa and the social worker For more than 20 years Taiki Kennedy was a social worker servicing clients, many of whom she was related to, throughout the Tairāwhiti. But she also wore many other hats.

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Donna follows her passion for manaakitanga Forty-year-old Donna (Ngāti Apakura), a solo parent from Te Awamutu, last year completed a Ngā Potoko Whakarara Oranga - Bachelor in Bicultural Social Work at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, after earlier getting a Certificate qualification.

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RoVE Road Map for TITOs Te Wānanga o Aotearoa (TWoA) Team have been engaged in the discovery phase to determine what could be possible in relation to the transitions, as well as the design and development of possible transition models for TWoA to consider.

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An artform woven into our culture Without raranga we wouldn’t have been able to clothe ourselves, have whāriki to sleep on or the baskets we need to carry or serve our kai in.

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Lynda reaps the benefits from business courses Lynda operates Lynda’s Log House, a guest house in the hills around Kaitaia, and enrolled in the Level 4 Certificate in Small Business and Project Management programme to help her understand more about successfully running a business.

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From curtains, clothing and costumes comes creativity Nephi Tupaea won the Supreme Award for costume design at Auckland’s Pasifika Festival in the early 90s and is now back in Heretaunga studying towards a Diploma in Indigenous and Māori Art at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa.

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Community focus follows career change After a successful engineering career Hari Rakena-Roberts was looking for a change which would bring more benefits to his community, and having that community thrust into the national spotlight gave him the final push he needed.

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Policing close to home works for Hannah Becoming a police officer fulfilled a life-long desire for Constable Lien (Hannah) Ngo. Hannah completed the programme in 2017 and was accepted into Police College in Porirua. After graduating, she chose to work at Ōtāhuhu Police station.

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Te Wānanga o Aotearoa Chair appointed to Board of Te Pūkenga Work Based Learning subsidiary Vanessa Eparaima, chair of the Te Wānanga o Aotearoa Council Te Mana Whakahaere, has been appointed to the Board of Te Pūkenga Work Based Learning Limited (WBL).

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Reconnecting with te ao Māori through tikanga A mainstay of champion kapa haka Te Waka Huia for most of her life, Pīmia won the coveted title of Manukura Wahine in 2017. Off the stage, Pīmia teaches Te Hapūtanga o te ao Tikanga at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa in Gisborne. 

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