The Call
To our rangatahi,
we see your mana, you are our future.
We will help you soar.
We will support your whānau, your hapori.
We are also a whānau, of friends and mentors,
guides and helpers, therapists and teachers, healers and farmers, artists and music makers.
We are all here to show you your wings.
We are here to help you see your mana,
To help you become the tane your ancestors know
you are destined to be.
They will see you become the kaitiaki of your whakapapa.
They will see you become the ones who lift your whānau out of survival into thriving again.
You are the heart of why we are here.
We are here to walk with you, not to help, but to uplift.
You are the ones who will soar.
And in soaring, lift us all, too.
Such is your strength.
Like those before you, it is the strength to cross oceans.
To navigate by the stars, connected to
Your indescribable Light.
Our Vision
Rangatahi living with purpose and presence — connected to whenua, celebrated by whānau, as lifelong contributors to the wellbeing of whakapapa
Our Mission
To walk with rangatahi as they reclaim their identity, realise their potential, and rise as kaitiaki of whakapapa.
Our Four Pou of Ora
Connection
“My humanity is bound up in yours — for we can only be human together.”
— Desmond Tutu
Healing
“If the land is unwell, the people will suffer. To heal our people, we must first heal the land.”
— King Tāwhiao
Education
“Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity, or as a practice of freedom — the means by which people deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to transform their world.”
— Paulo Freire
Vocation
“Work is love made visible.”
—Khalil Gibran
We are Te Kāhu Tiu
We guide rangatahi through what sparks their curiosity — not by force, but by aroha — to uncover the unique shape of their genius.
