Healthy Families Far North

18/06/2026

44 community projects across Te Tai Tokerau getting behind kai security this year, supporting stronger, healthier and more connected communities.😌🌱

Ngā mihi nui ki ngā kaupapa katoa!! 👏

Congratulations to the 44 community projects and initiatives receiving funding this year - we can't wait to see your ideas come alive and are excited to be part of this mahi.

18/06/2026

Join the Kāeo Tool Shed for E Tupu E Rea, a hands-on day on the marae learning how to build your own wooden planter box from scratch 🪚🌱

See the post below for more details 👇

✨Manawatia a Matariki, Pāikeikehia a Puanga!
Puanga – herenga tāngata

Join the Kāeo Tool Shed for E Tupu E Rea 🪚 a hands-on day on the marae learning how to build your own wooden planter box from scratch 🌱

Whether you're just starting out or keen to sharpen your skills, this workshop is for everyone. Learn how to measure, cut, and assemble timber safely, while also gaining practical knowledge about what to plant for this time of year.

The best part; the planter boxes become a koha back to marae across Whangaroa, supporting our rohe 🌿

Come connect with whānau, learn something new, and contribute to something bigger.

📅 Parairei 26 o Hune
📍 Kiripaka Marae, Te Ngaere
⏰ 9.00am – 3.00pm

👉🏼 Spaces are limited, make sure to register https://forms.office.com/r/Z6NaqhsQhh

14/06/2026

✨ Maramataka Mondays 🌙

Whiro kicks off the week low, so don't fight it. Today's a good one to go slow and ease in.

Energy builds as the week goes on, with Wenerei and Tāite better suited to creative mahi and getting the tinana moving.

Ata = slowly, gently 🔶

14/06/2026

From wānanga and creative spaces, to movement, remembrance and hautapu; there's a number of kaupapa happening across Whangaroa to connect, reflect, and celebrate together leading up to Matariki ✨

📅 17 June – 10 July
📍 Events across Whangaroa

Swipe through to see what’s on and find something for you and your whānau ⬇️

11/06/2026

Our Rautaki Māori Systems Innovator, Riri Motu, talks to Waatea News about the recent wānanga focused on strengthening community health through mātauranga Māori. 🫂🌀

🎧 LISTEN | Wānanga hauora Māori ki Te Tai Tokerau https://waateanews.com/2026/06/11/riri-motu-wananga-hauora-maori-ki-te-tai-tokerau/

11/06/2026

Manawatia a Matariki, Pāikeikehia a Puanga! ✨

Ngāti Ruamahue invites our whānau, hapū, iwi and wider Whangaroa rohe to come together for Puanga Matariki – herenga waka.

Details in the post below 👇

✨ Manawatia a Matariki, Pāikeikehia a Puanga!

Ngāti Ruamahue invites our whānau, hapū, iwi and wider Whangaroa rohe to come together for Puanga Matariki – herenga waka

📍Ki Hea: Piapia, Wainui
🗓 Hei Āhea: Friday 10 July
⏰4.30am

Join us as we acknowledge the rising of the stars, honour those who have passed, and set our intentions for the year ahead 🙏✨

Bring your waiata and kōrero to share — let our voices carry the kaupapa of remembrance and renewal

🔥 Karakia
🎤 Kōrero
🎶 Waiata
🍽 Kai (hāngī provided)

🚌 Bus transport and hāngī available, please register here:
bit.ly/4gdisTq

Nau piki mai, nau kake mai - remembering together our loved ones and embracing the promise of the tau hou 💫

📸 Rawhitiroa Photography

05/06/2026

Reflections from our Healthy Families Kāhui Māori wānanga 💭

It’s moments like these that remind us that prevention exists between the mahi too.

In the shared responsibility.
In showing up for ourselves and each other.
In whakapapa, kōrero and collective vision.

Sometimes prevention looks like strategy.
Sometimes it looks like doing the dishes.
Sometimes it’s early mornings, shared spaces and hard conversations.

Remembering that the way we do the mahi matters - understanding that health and wellbeing is shaped by the environments we create, the relationships we nurture, and the way we care for people along the way. 💚

04/06/2026

Good health belongs in our communities, and it begins in the places where we spend our time, where we gather, connect, and belong: on marae, on whenua and with each other. 🌱🫂

This idea brought Rautaki Māori from Healthy Families NZ locations together in Te Tai Tokerau for the first time, to grow the contribution of mātauranga Māori to prevention and systems innovation across Aotearoa. 🌀

"Mātauranga Māori has long guided how we care for each other and our communities. These few days together gave us the chance to bring that knowledge back to the centre of our work, for the health and wellbeing of our people.” ✨

🔗 READ | Healthy Families Rautaki Māori gather in the Far North to strengthen community-led health https://healthyfamiliesfarnorth.org.nz/our-stories/healthy-families-rautaki-maori-gather-in-the-far-north-to-strengthen-community-led-health/

02/06/2026

E te oroinga o te whakaaro, e te puru o te mātauranga Māori,

e kara, e Tā Hīrini, takahia rā te ara whānui a Kupe ki Taputapuātea, ki Wawauātea, ki Hawaiiki Whakaea manawa, ki te kāpunipuni o te tupua, o te tawhito. 🕊️✨

“As your Koro, my task was to explain the legacy so that each of you can hold it in your hands, absorb it, share it, add to it what you already know and finally cherish it.” — Tā Hirini Moko Mead, who died last week, aged 99, writing to “the mokopuna generation of the nation”.
🔗 https://shorturl.at/4L3Oz

29/05/2026

Over the past few days we came together as Healthy Families Kāhui Māori o te Motu to share whakaaro, strengthen our collective and reflect on how mātauranga Māori continues to guide our mahi for whānau and communities. The wairua, kōrero, laughter and connections shared throughout this kaupapa were truly special🌱

As Healthy Families Far North, we were honoured to host this kaupapa and hold space for such meaningful wānanga here in Te Tai Tokerau, across places of deep significance not only to our rohe and people but to our nation also🌊⛰️

Ka mihia te hunga i whai wāhi ki te kaupapa nei. Te haukāinga o Ngāti Rēhia, ngā kaikōrero, ngā ringawera me ngā kaiārahi Māori o te motu hoki!