Kia Ora ko Leeann Brown toku Ingoa. I am awakening te Reo within myself. When I was younger I was fluent but as my mother grew up through colonisation she was very scared to speak te Reo , I have now given her back the passion of our language. Her Parents were both maori and she grew up on the east coast in a maori village. Our goal is to get more confidence in ourselves to be our try selves (maori) and to get our moko kauae done to show our children and mokos what our culture truely is so they can live and grow there knowledge to pass on to our future generations. Ma te wa