Māori Women’s Welfare League partnership

Duration: 00:37

Helmut Modlik, CEO Te Rūnanga o Toa Rangatira

Our aspirations can be summarised threefold really, one is enhancing the wellbeing, the prosperity, and the mana of our people.

That’s really the guts of what we’re trying to achieve.

Wirangi Luke, CEO Te Rūnanganui o Te Āti Awa

So joining up as iwi on a day like this is significant for us all, and I hope that it’s great for the rangatahi for the future.

We heard it today, with the waiata from Ngāti Toa, the korero from Taku Parai about what they lost, and how they’re bringing it together and being staunch, Te Āti Awa is the same.

So binding us together, with the hourua waka and joining the canoe together would be fantastic for us and for our families.

Helmut Modlik, CEO Te Rūnanga o Toa Rangatira

We’re excited to reconnect, and formally join together at a governance and executive – and then operating level – to ensure that everything we’re doing is aligned and aimed at achieving those exact same three goals, for not only Ngāti Toa and Te Āti Awa, but in fact for all of our community members that we have an interest in supporting their journey.