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Hine | Share your why

Posted by Hine Herangi · April 17, 2025 11:02 PM

I’m PROUD to be Māori.

Tatiana | Share your why

Posted by Tatiana Brennan · April 17, 2025 7:02 PM

Kia Ora… Aotearoa has become my home.

Jordan | Share your why

Posted by Jordan Nash · April 15, 2025 9:52 AM

Being Maori is a huge part of my identity.

Robin | Share your why

Posted by Robin Thomson · April 14, 2025 10:10 AM

Kia Ora ki a koutou katoa' .

Manpreet | Share your why

Posted by Manpreet Kler · March 27, 2025 8:19 PM

I love Aotearoa.

Jodi-Anne | Share your why

Posted by Jodi-Anne Hawira · March 23, 2025 9:46 AM

Melissia | Share your why

Posted by Melissia Edmonds · March 02, 2025 9:48 PM

To honour my tipuna, to teach my mokopuna to ensure our history is never lost again, for myself as I journey towards receiving my moko kaue.

Tanea | Share your why

Posted by Tania Milner · March 02, 2025 6:22 PM

Since the age of 8 I have been surrounded by our culture, however I could never fully grasp our language.

Ngawhariki | Share your why

Posted by Ngawhariki Jacobs · March 02, 2025 3:12 PM

Te Reo Maori is a huge part of my cultural identity and my heritage to claim!

Kathy | Share your why

Posted by Kathy Walker · March 02, 2025 1:54 PM

My biggest regret is not knowing my own beautiful language.

Ali | Share your why

Posted by Ali Caldwell · March 02, 2025 1:46 PM

Shared language creates connection and understanding.

Erana | Share your why

Posted by Erana Herewini · March 02, 2025 1:40 PM

Learning te reo maori has been a massive journey.

Tinaka | Share your why

Posted by Tinaka Jopson · March 02, 2025 6:31 AM

Mo aku mokopuna

Keesha | Share your why

Posted by Keesha Tana · March 01, 2025 9:32 PM

Learning, utilizing, and excelling in Te Reo Māori adds a sense of real belonging to who we are as tangata whenua.

Emilie | Share your why

Posted by Emilie Neubauer · March 01, 2025 12:35 PM

He Kaiako ahau, as a teacher I want to be part of a movement to make reo compulsory in kura our tamariki are the future and they should be speaking the language of our whenua

Teina | Share your why

Posted by Teina Aue · March 01, 2025 12:18 PM

Mō āku mokopuna.

Louise | Share your why

Posted by Louise Eru · March 01, 2025 11:37 AM

Toitu Te Tiriti, I am Maori Proud to be Maori.

Anahera | Share your why

Posted by Anahera Autagavaia · March 01, 2025 8:38 AM

Mō ngā mokopuna o te ao āpōpō.

Nicole | Share your why

Posted by Nicole Bristowe · March 01, 2025 8:31 AM

I want to ensure my children and also each generation have the knowledge to blossom and learn their roots.

Sharon | Share your why

Posted by Sharon Pihama · March 01, 2025 6:29 AM

My whanau 🍃

Kiri | Share your why

Posted by Robyn Hansen · February 28, 2025 11:36 PM

As a wahine that whakapapa's Maori and who works with Whanau Maori, I want to uphold and enhance their mana while also increasing my kupu.

Sarah | Share your why

Posted by Sarah Hjertquist · February 28, 2025 8:14 PM

He aha ai e ako ana au i te reo Māori?.

Dell | Share your why

Posted by Dell McCaskill · February 28, 2025 7:41 PM

Tooku Mokopuna

Pania | Share your why

Posted by [email protected] Taylor · February 28, 2025 6:48 PM

I know who I am where I'm from I know my mum an my dad's whakapapa I want to understand maori when listening or hear korero some words I know but wanting to learn more

Aleisha | Share your why

Posted by Aleisha Maindonald · February 28, 2025 6:46 PM

I am an education support worker working alongside Kaiako at multiple Centers.

Hinetoko | Share your why

Posted by Hinetoko Kaipainoa · February 28, 2025 6:06 PM

I grew up not connected to my Māoritanga, and now I take every opportunity to whakapiki tōku reo i roto i te ao Māori.

Camelia | Share your why

Posted by Camelia Vaipo Muraahi · February 28, 2025 5:50 PM

I am starting my journey for my pepi, our next generation.

Renee | Share your why

Posted by Renee Baldwin · February 28, 2025 5:36 PM

I am learning Te Reo to strengthen my own knowledge, and then to encourage and strengthen my children's knowledge so they can be unapologetically maori.

L | Share your why

Posted by L Motu · February 28, 2025 4:04 PM

Ko te reo māori he rongoa mo te iwi māori

Tanja | Share your why

Posted by Tanja Schwalm · February 28, 2025 3:28 PM

He manuheke, he Tangata Tiriti ahau.

Blake | Share your why

Posted by Hireinia Lou Maehe · February 28, 2025 3:26 PM

its my turn.

Kita | Share your why

Posted by Kita Ruatara · February 28, 2025 1:54 PM

Ko te mea nui ki au nei, ko nga Purākau mai nga wā o mua te whakapapa ō nga whakapapa, hei whakakotahi tātou i roto i te ao nei, ehara nga mahara rangirua.

Te Awatea | Share your why

Posted by Te Awatea Rangiuaia-Carter · February 28, 2025 1:10 PM

For not only my tamariki and mokopuna but for all iwi māori 💜

Pania | Share your why

Posted by Pania Wiki · February 28, 2025 12:56 PM

Te Reo is important to me but I wasn't taught as a child.

Delwyn | Share your why

Posted by Delwyn Fraser · February 28, 2025 12:43 PM

It is our heritage😊😊

Renata | Share your why

Posted by Renata Neilson · February 28, 2025 12:28 PM

Te Reo Māori is important to me because it makes us unique and gives us identity.

Leanne | Share your why

Posted by Leanne Frazer · February 28, 2025 12:21 PM

I am Pakeha and have a Maori partner and children.

Ruahine | Share your why

Posted by Ruahine Hemara · February 28, 2025 12:19 PM

I was denied te reo when my parents were beaten for speaking te reo.

Koa | Share your why

Posted by Patricia Ngahuia Tawera · February 28, 2025 12:02 PM

Tënei te mihi.

Hera | Share your why

Posted by Hera Wikitera · February 28, 2025 11:53 AM

Ko aku tamariki mokopuna te take 😜

Sheryl | Share your why

Posted by Sheryl Fleming · February 28, 2025 11:32 AM

My reo journey - learning the language, my whakapapa, connecting with the land, and learning more about my iwi.

Debbie | Share your why

Posted by Debbie Ker · February 28, 2025 11:28 AM

I started my reo journey late in life and my biggest block was myself, those pronouns and verbs got me all up in my head.

Tina | Share your why

Posted by Tina Renata · February 28, 2025 10:10 AM

Ko te reo te tino taonga mō tātou te iwi Māori.

Ali | Share your why

Posted by Alison Montaperto Wells · February 28, 2025 9:58 AM

Te Reo Māori is a beautiful language and needs our mahi to build and strengthen the korero in our community to support and build up the Tangata Whenua.

Christina | Share your why

Posted by Christina Tay · February 28, 2025 9:30 AM

For past, present and future generations.

Brenda | Share your why

Posted by Brenda S · February 28, 2025 9:19 AM

Ka ū tōnu ahau ki te Reo o ōku tūpuna, nō te mea kua ngaro te Reo ki tōku whakapapa nō te tau kōtahi mano, waru rau, rua tekau mā rua.

Alana | Share your why

Posted by Alana Chandler-Reti · February 28, 2025 9:17 AM

I am learning te reo Māori for two reasons - to tautoko my tamariki who are Māori - and as a kaiako, honouring our guiding principles in Te Whāriki (the early childhood curriculum) to support tamariki.

Marleena | Share your why

Posted by Marleena Biddle · February 28, 2025 9:06 AM

To keep our reo alive and for the next generations, our tamariki and mokopuna.

Toni | Share your why

Posted by Toni Hutchings · February 28, 2025 9:06 AM

Ki te whakatenatena i nga tangata katoa kia pai ki te korero Māori.

Kyra | Share your why

Posted by Kyra Ngaronoa · February 28, 2025 8:57 AM

I would be truly honored to receive a package from Reo Māori, as it would symbolize both a deep personal connection to the language and a meaningful step in my Te Reo journey.

Aroha | Share your why

Posted by Aroha Gillespie · February 28, 2025 8:46 AM

For my babies 💛

Aroha | Share your why

Posted by Aroha Patene · February 28, 2025 8:41 AM

A question I get asked alot.

Lavinia | Share your why

Posted by Lavinia Kanara · February 16, 2025 11:16 AM

Kia Ora whānue tokū e hoa.

Harry | Share your why

Posted by Harry Wheoki · January 28, 2025 10:01 AM

Just want to speak maori

Rameka | Share your why

Posted by Rameka Nichols · January 19, 2025 10:20 AM

Kia ora!

Mamun | Share your why

Posted by Mamun Akter · January 09, 2025 12:22 AM

Eric | Share your why

Posted by Eric Austin · December 19, 2024 10:47 AM

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Ariel André Junior | Share your why

Posted by Ariel Matanda · December 16, 2024 7:14 PM

Kia ora koutou, Ko Ariel tōku ingoa me Nō Kamerūna ahau!

Jesselyn | Share your why

Posted by Jesselyn Perez · November 08, 2024 12:08 AM

As a gesture of deep gratitude, I wish to learn the Maori language and because once I will have the skills to speak and write the language then I can also teach others to do the same.

dan | Share your why

Posted by dan dainty · November 06, 2024 4:32 PM

Growing up I always knew I had Māori whakapapa but my parents always dismissed and swept it under the rug, whakapapa māori was kind of like a myth or a joke to us.

Archie | Share your why

Posted by Barry Wayne Neha · November 05, 2024 7:29 AM

I want to learn MY language because I am 62 years old.

Cindy | Share your why

Posted by Cindy Jarvis · October 23, 2024 5:37 AM

I've come to a point in my 60 + year journey where I need to learn Te Reo not only for my own self but as part of my obligation as Tangata Tiriti to uphold, protect and nurture Te Tiriti and the promises made to Tangata Whenua.

Sasha | Share your why

Posted by Sasha Clarkson · October 20, 2024 1:31 PM

Kōrero te reo māori

Archie | Share your why

Posted by Ross Minty · October 08, 2024 2:25 PM

I am Pakiha, and a Father and grandad , my children and grand children are all Maori on their mums side of the Family.

Joy | Share your why

Posted by Joy Smith · September 26, 2024 8:30 PM

At Beststart Russell Street, Palmerston North, the Tamariki practiced tu tira mai on monday, and tuesday and produced a performance for all our whanau on Wednesday!

sonya | Share your why

Posted by sonya taylor · September 26, 2024 1:17 PM

“Whanau”

Carlene | Share your why

Posted by Carlene Duff · September 23, 2024 12:22 PM

To understand more of what's been said at tangi, i have find it sad going to a whānau tangi and not knowing what is being said.

Anneliese | Share your why

Posted by Anneliese Nikorima · September 22, 2024 4:01 PM

Bit of a throwback!

Sharlene | Share your why

Posted by Sharlene Henry · September 22, 2024 8:37 AM

I konei te roopu Kaitiaki

Trish | Share your why

Posted by Trish Molloy · September 21, 2024 2:45 PM

Tamariki from Turitea wharekura performed Kapa Haka items for the public at the Spring Fling event.

Dana | Share your why

Posted by Dana Lee · September 21, 2024 1:29 PM

My 7yo participating in Te wiki ō te reo Māori by entering this poster into his Kura competition.

Maraea | Share your why

Posted by Maraea Simmonds · September 21, 2024 11:50 AM

Tēnā koutou,.

Tina | Share your why

Posted by Tina Renata · September 21, 2024 2:20 AM

It is my tūākiritanga.

Lee-Anna | Share your why

Posted by Lee-Anna Johnston · September 20, 2024 1:43 PM · 1 reaction

In The Dunedin Contact Centre for Ministry of Social Development we have embraced Te Wiki o te Reo and have had daily Te Reo challenges, quizzes and performed a Waiata Challenge as well as a shared lunch.

Jade | Share your why

Posted by Jade Fraser · September 19, 2024 4:37 PM

I have labelled everything that didn't move.

Jade | Share your why

Posted by Jade Fraser · September 19, 2024 4:33 PM

The workplace likes that Computer = Rorohiko = Electric Brain

Marietjie | Share your why

Posted by Marietjie Van der Westhuizen · September 19, 2024 1:56 PM

In honour of Te wiki Reo Maori week, I decided to text in te reo Maori when I text my Māori colleagues.

Jade | Share your why

Posted by Jade Fraser · September 19, 2024 9:51 AM

Dual labelling.

Tania | Share your why

Posted by Tania Walklin · September 19, 2024 7:34 AM

Ka mau te wehi.

Jade | Share your why

Posted by Jade Fraser · September 18, 2024 4:36 PM

As a workplace we strive to answer the Kuwi and friends' questions.

Princess Margaret-Margarita-Mariam-Maryam | Share your why

Posted by Princess Margaret-Margarita-Mariam-Maryam Falamoe-Lyttle · September 18, 2024 4:07 PM

BECAUSE I AM A MAORI .

Carolyn | Share your why

Posted by Carolyn Cornu · September 18, 2024 1:49 PM

As a staff we have been progressively building a Bananagrams collection of kupu atāhua.

Mekaylar | Share your why

Posted by Mekaylar Kolofoua · September 18, 2024 11:16 AM

I have grown up around the rich indigenous culture, values and history of Māori~ I pursued history throughout high school and enjoyed learning about the very people who are the foundation of many communities around our country.

Sam | Share your why

Posted by Sam Fabian · September 18, 2024 10:40 AM

I lived in Tāmaki Makaurau for all my life and i've always loved maori colcher so my teacher said to look hear

Cameron | Share your why

Posted by Cameron Bergin · September 18, 2024 12:40 AM

To help connect me fully to my māoritanga and culture.

Bee | Share your why

Posted by Bee Westenra · September 17, 2024 6:11 PM

I treat te reo Māori as a taonga.

April | Share your why

Posted by April OBrien · September 17, 2024 6:09 PM

My why is to keep our hononga with our pakeke and tamariki.

Andrea | Share your why

Posted by Andrea Hata · September 17, 2024 4:57 PM

I am doing daily challenges and using a new saying each day to increase my te reo knowledge.

Annalise | Share your why

Posted by Annalise · September 17, 2024 4:06 PM

Te Reo enables me to connect to my tūpuna, my wairua, to our whenua, to my whānau.

Liisa | Share your why

Posted by Liisa Wana · September 17, 2024 4:00 PM

I was married to my late husband (Maori) for 52years, for the past 15 years I have done various night classes in te reo but not very brave in public, so talk and answer to myself a lot in private.