Kia ora, 2 years ago my wife and I started learning (level 1) te Reo Māori at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. It has transformed our lives to learn the language of our tūpuna. It was one of my goals to learn how to do a mihi whakatau for the significant purpose of welcoming and grounding manuhiri to a space or roopu of people. Such a taonga! This is an official whakatau I did at my mahi this morning ki World Vision Aotearoa for the new youth ambassadors joining us. As we awhi and tautoko our indigenous whānau o te ao katoa, it is tika that we embrace te ao Māori and te reo Māori as a more fuller way of supporting vulnerable children and families across the world. Ka rawe. Kia kaha te reo Māori!!
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