WE ARE A COMMUNITY-LED ENTERPRISE BASED ON BUSINESS PRINCIPLES TO ACHIEVE SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL ASPIRATIONS.

Kinesthetic Work & Life Skills Self-assessment & Development hubs are codesigned with community partners to fit each unique multisector community needs. The hubs support communities to eradicate poverty in a way that simultaneously reduces inequality and exclusion while protecting the environment on which we all depend.

Nurture the land, give life to the people.

Our Mission

We aim to create a sustainable ecological, social and educational enterprise that supports, trains and advocates for people who find it challenging to enter the labour market.  By empowering people to break habits and change the inter-generational cycle, they can create a better life for themselves and future generations.   We hope this will inspire other organisations to include social, environmental, economic and cultural components and Te Whangai Trust can help them meet these.

Social

Whangai is an indigenous concept of Aotearoa and is a means of meeting community social needs especially for the young, ensuring they are provided with adequate opportunity to grow.

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 Environmental

Over the last century and a half, the industrial revolution and demand for cheap food to feed lower socio-economies have placed unsustainable pressures on our environment.

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 Economic

The pursuit of financial profit without measuring social, environmental or cultural consequences, has led to the denigration of our environment and social structure.

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Cultural

The only point of difference that Aotearoa has with trading partners is our indigenous culture.  For some 25 generations Maori lived alongside nature’s resources until the arrival of Europeans who began living off nature’s resources.

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