Noaia

03/06/2026

⚒️ Wiki Ono Waihanga ⚒️

Our tauira have been putting in the mahi this week working hard on Project 2: whare heihei 🐔🏠 and potting mix tables 🌱🪚, smashing out theory assessments 📚✅ CV workshop with Whaea Sachi and getting some fitness in too 🏃🏽‍♂️💥

Ka mau te wehi e te whānau! Awesome to see the skills, confidence and work ethic growing every week 🙌🏽✨

We are now taking tauira for our Term 3 Waihanga kaupapa ⚒️ Limited spots available!

Interested? Click on the link below.

https://noaia.selma.app/en/form/apply/16

24/05/2026

⚒️ Wiki Rima | Waihanga ⚒️

Halfway through the term and the mahi keeps rolling on strong 💪🏽

✅ Retaining Wall Project
🐓 Chicken Coop Build
⚒️ Site Maintenance
📖 Theory Sessions

He rawe te kite i te tipu, te mahi tahi me te ngākau nui o ngā tauira ia wiki 💯

We are now taking Expressions of Interest for our Term 3 cohort. Limited spaces available nō reira, if you’re keen to jump on the kaupapa and build your skills, register below 👇🏽.

Apply Here - https://noaia.selma.app/en/form/apply/16

Mauri Ora ✨

23/05/2026

On Friday, in collaboration with Noaia, Road II Redemption, and Kai Connoisseurs, we held a working bee at Te Waka-a-Rangi cutting firewood and preparing spaces for calves and chickens ahead of spring. 🌱🔥🐄🐓

This was a beautiful collaboration of kaupapa, creating meaningful opportunities for tauira to gain valuable hands-on work experience while contributing back to the whenua and community.

A huge mihi to our Community Job Coaching rangatahi who stepped into Tuakana roles, mentoring and supporting Noaia tauira throughout the day. Your leadership, patience, and mana made a real impact. 💛

We’re also deeply grateful to the amazing team at Kai Connoisseurs for nourishing our tinana with beautiful kai, while also helping coordinate the day alongside Noaia and Road II Redemption.

To our MVPs... thank you for your hard mahi and dedication. It was a privilege to acknowledge your contribution with a small koha voucher in appreciation of the energy and commitment you brought to the kaupapa.

Ngā mihi nui to everyone involved in making the day such a success. This is what collaboration, whakawhanaungatanga, and collective growth looks like. ✨

21/05/2026

Ruataniwha Staffing pānui – We are pleased to announce that Ashely Rafferty has joined the Noia team in the role of Kaiārahi Ruataniwha, to lead our hands on, whenua based Ruataniwha programme, for Rangatahi who have disengaged from mainstream schooling. Ashely will support the Noia vision of ensuring young people are engaged in practical learning across farming, horticulture, and environmental contexts. Ashley is a mother, an experienced primary school teacher and a Registered Social Worker. She comes from a professional background across both education and kaupapa Māori social services. She holds two degrees, a Bachelor of Teaching and Learning (Primary) and a Master of Social Work. Ashley’s practice is grounded in whanaungatanga and supporting positive outcomes for rangatahi and their whānau. Ashely is passionate about fostering a supportive environment where all learners feel safe, understood, and able to thrive. Nau mai, haere mai Ashely!!

19/05/2026

🔨⚒️ Waihanga – Wiki Rua, Toru & Whā ⚒️🔨

Our tauira have been putting in the mahi and getting stuck in on some awesome hands on projects 💪🏽🔥

✅ Retaining Wall Project
📏 Setting out profiles
🕳️ Digging post holes
🪵 Suspending posts
🧱 Concreting
🔧 Installing rails

✅ Garden Furniture Project #1
🪑 Bench seat completed ☑️

Massive mihi to our building tauira for the hard work, teamwork, and commitment they continue to show every week 👏🏽💯

Building skills. Building confidence. Building futures 🏗️🛠️

Mauri Ora ✨

16/05/2026

The Waihanga tauira headed to the NZMA Open Day this week and were treated to a VIP tour of the facilities, including the NZIS space.

It was awesome to see the range of opportunities available on such a great campus, backed by a strong team of kaimahi 💪🏽

Big shout out to NZMA and NZIS for hosting us mauri ora 👍🏽.

12/05/2026

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🌿 Tūtaepatu Lagoon — te manawa o Tūhaitara Coastal Park

Tūtaepatu is the heart of Tūhaitara Coastal Park — a 49-hectare spring-fed lagoon and the largest area of natural open water in the coastal strip between the Waimakariri and Ashley Rakahuri rivers.

For Ngāi Tūāhuriri hapū, this place carries deep and layered significance. It has been a vital mahinga kai for over 300 years — tuna were its guardians, and generations of whānau from Tuahiwi gathered kai, cut harakeke, and maintained their connection to this place across centuries. It is also the resting place of tūpuna, making it a site of profound spiritual importance to the iwi.

Tūtaepatu was returned to Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu as part of the Treaty settlement in the late 1990s after more than seven generations of persistent advocacy by Ngāi Tūāhuriri to reclaim what had always been theirs. Te Kōhaka o Tūhaitara Trust was established to restore and care for this taonga in partnership with Waimakariri District Council — and that work continues today.

Right now our team is actively planting native species throughout the lagoon margins, infilling areas of earlier plantings, and releasing plants and removing guards where they're no longer needed. Pest animal and pest plant control is ongoing, with contractors completing annual willow control to keep encroachment in check.

Every season we're building on what's come before

11/05/2026

Wiki Toru 🦅⛰️
Ope Taiao
Our Noaia start of term Kaiapoi Pā hikoi and purakau trip! Taiao also headed up to Maukatere to check out some taonga species and the ngahere! We found some freshwater koura and some adult inaka up in the head of grey river a tributary of the rakahuri awa. Ko Maukatere te mauka, Ko Rakahuri te Awa Mahaanui tuarua te marae Ngāi Tuahuriri te hapū

07/05/2026

Huge mihi to Hunters4Hope Hope Community Trust providing our Noaia whānau with 100 kilos of venison 🙌🏽.

Ngā mihi nui ki a koutou mō tō koutou aroha, manaaki, me te tautoko ki te hapori. Your generosity and commitment to feeding whānau makes a real difference and shows the true meaning of kotahitanga and manaakitanga 💪🏽💙.

Mauri Ora.