Ahakoa he iti, he pounamu. This is for those who have lost their voice and need to be heard! This is for my friends This is for my home stay whanau who are on their own journey of reclaiming what being Māori and speaking their reo is for them and honoring their journey This is for addressing the racism in my own whānau This is the wero for me to do better as a treaty partner and kōrero when I can and make it a lifestyle so it becomes cool to kōrero Māori. This is for normalizing learning our indigenous language in NZ and making our school curriculum actually uphold what it says it wants to achieve by becoming first bi-cultural before it becomes multicultural.