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Trustpower Back on Te Wiki O Te Reo Maori Waka for 2015

Trustpower Back on Te Wiki O Te Reo Maori Waka for 2015


Trustpower staff across Aotearoa are ready to carry the torch for language preservation, with Te Wiki o te Reo Maori just around the corner.

The Mount Maunganui-based power and telecommunications Company are taking the nationally-run campaign as a chance to encourage use of the national language in the workplace, from Monday to Friday next week (July 27-31).

Across sites in Oamaru, Whanganui and Te Maunga’s head office, activities including harakeke (flax) weaving workshops, pronunciation classes, and ‘kupu (word) of the day’ will take place.

“It’s really great for mahi hoa (work mates) to be able to get involved Maori Language Week, Maori and pākeha. We have some awesome leaders emerging from our Māori staff who were willing to share the kaupapa with the rest of us too,” Kathlene Cook said.

Cook, from the community relations team, has driven plans for the week-long celebrations, themed ‘Whāngaihia te reo ki nga mātua’ – ‘nurture the language in parents’.

Activities at Trustpower’s head office will also include having Papamoa’s Soldiers Road Portraits along on Monday from 10am-4pm. The professional photographers, Vienna and Taaniko Nordstrom, specialise in traditional and colonial portraiture for Māori and other indigenous cultures. Slots are almost full for the Monday sessions with the sisters-in-law, who will be set up at
Trustpower offices for the day.

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